From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 11 20:10:12 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA14830 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 20:10:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA14747 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 20:10:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA18500; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:39:39 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id OAA08364; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:39:39 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990212143938.Z491@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:39:38 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: cjclark@home.com, Christopher Michaels - SSG Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removing Networking from kernel References: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB441A5ED5@site2s1> <199902120408.XAA20097@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i 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 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message