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Date:      Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:39:38 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        cjclark@home.com, Christopher Michaels - SSG <ChrisMic@sbservices.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Removing Networking from kernel
Message-ID:  <19990212143938.Z491@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199902120408.XAA20097@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>; from Crist J. Clark on Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 11:08:30PM -0500
References:  <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB441A5ED5@site2s1> <199902120408.XAA20097@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>

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On Thursday, 11 February 1999 at 23:08:30 -0500, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> Christopher Michaels - SSG wrote,
>> Essentially no, you need INET.  FreeBSD is a network operating system at
>> it's core, and to my knowledge won't operate properly w/o it.
>>
>> Here is a snippet from the handbook:
>> (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook61.html)
>>
>> options INET
>>
>> 	Networking support. Leave it in even if you do not plan to be
>> connected to a network. Most programs require at least loopback networking
>> (i.e. making network connections within your PC) so this is essentially
>> mandatory.
>
> Then why is it even an "option" in the kernel config if it cannot be
> built without it?

Hysterical raisins.

Greg
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