From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 2 20:36:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 512F437B401; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 20:36:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from newsguy.com (smtp.newsguy.com [129.250.170.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A644E43F93; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 20:36:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (200-140-006-213.bsace7026.dsl.brasiltelecom.net.br [200.140.6.213]) by newsguy.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA12338; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 13:47:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3E8B5A72.9090603@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 18:47:30 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210 X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,pt,en-GB,en-US,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jordan K Hubbard References: <7DDCFFBC-6551-11D7-87AF-000393BB9222@queasyweasel.com> In-Reply-To: <7DDCFFBC-6551-11D7-87AF-000393BB9222@queasyweasel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" cc: Peter Wemm cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: Alexander Leidinger cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Proposal regarding the RFC 3514 handling X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 04:36:03 -0000 Mmmmmm. I fear the repecursion of my planned loader regex support changes... :-) Jordan K Hubbard wrote: > All of this discussion begs the question, however: Since we've set a > precedent here, when does Jim Fleming's IPv8 support get rolled in? > FreeBSD could certainly use "stargates" as a way of impressing Julian's > Linux-using friends! > > - Jordan > > On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 11:48 AM, Peter Wemm wrote: > >> Alexander Leidinger wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 00:21:44 -0800 (PST) >>> "Matthew N. Dodd" wrote: >>> >>>> mdodd 2003/04/01 00:21:44 PST >>>> >>>> FreeBSD src repository >>>> >>>> Modified files: >>>> sbin/ping ping.8 ping.c >>>> share/man/man4 inet.4 ip.4 >>>> sys/netinet in.h in_pcb.h ip.h ip_input.c ip_output.c >>>> ip_var.h >>>> usr.bin/netstat inet.c >>>> Log: >>>> Implement support for RFC 3514 (The Security Flag in the IPv4 >>>> Header). >>> >>> >>> In the light of the actual "force" against this commit: perhaps it would >>> be ok for all involved parties to only compile this code in based upon a >>> kernel option... >> >> >> Personally, I tend to agree. >> >>> In my POV: people which don't know enough about this topic would IMHO >>> not be concerned about this code, and people which know enough to have a >>> reason to compile or not compile this code into the kernel should also >>> know enough about FreeBSD to not regard this code as a lack of >>> professionalism (and see it as what it is: there are people which enjoy >>> to invest their time into FreeBSD... and this is what makes FreeBSD what >>> it is). >> >> >> Exactly. We're supposed to be doing FreeBSD for our own enjoyment. If >> others get use from it then fine. The day that we're no longer >> allowed to >> have fun because it might upset somebody in some fortune-500 company will >> be a sad day indeed. Nobody said we had to be 100% deadly serious the >> whole time. >> >> .. as long as having a bit of fun doesn't get in the way.. An option >> would >> stop it being in the code execution paths. >> >> On the other hand, we have so much cruft in the ip input/output code >> paths >> (2 or 3 different packet filter hooks etc), this is tiny by comparison. >> >> Anyway, I think Matthew is going to to remove it, so maybe its a moot >> point. >> >> Cheers, >> -Peter >> -- >> Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com >> "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 >> >> > -- > Jordan K. Hubbard > Engineering Manager, BSD technology group > Apple Computer > > -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@professional.bsdconspiracy.net Spellng is overated anywy.