From owner-freebsd-security Wed Sep 15 16:17:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from terrapin.ru.ac.za (terrapin.ru.ac.za [146.231.128.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55E4A14A23 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 16:17:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org) Received: from duca.dialup.ru.ac.za ([146.231.98.24] helo=mithrandr.moria.org) by terrapin.ru.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 11ROIW-0000xH-00 for security@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 01:17:08 +0200 Received: (qmail 31035 invoked by uid 1001); 15 Sep 1999 23:17:23 -0000 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 01:17:23 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Brett Glass Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BPF on in 3.3-RC GENERIC kernel Message-ID: <19990916011723.B28027@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <4.2.0.58.19990915164546.048d0100@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990915164546.048d0100@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 04:52:36PM -0600 Organization: Rhodes University Computer Users' Society X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed 1999-09-15 (16:52), Brett Glass wrote: > Was doing some testing on the latest release candidate of FreeBSD 3.3, and > noted that the Berkeley Packet Filter was enabled in the GENERIC kernel. Is > this a good idea? I believe it has something to do with DHCP. There were other reasons too. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message