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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:18:35 +0000
From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To: Quintin Oliver <quintin@smlt.com>
Cc: Vallo Kallaste <vallo@matti.ee>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: /dev/bfp0
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Quintin Oliver wrote:

> /dev/bfp0...device not configured, does the generic installtion kernel
> already have support for it?

No, GENERIC does not have it compiled in by default. If you're still
running a GENERIC kernel though, you really should build a custom
kernel. It's fairly straight forward to start with, just delete any
devices you don't have (that's a bit simplistic probably, but it's as
far as I've got :-). This will

a) save time during bootup (this doesn't matter, since you very rarely
reboot a Un*x machine of course :-)
b) save memory
c) save diskspace

> or will I still need to compile it?

See previous message:

> > You are missing one line in your kernel config:
> > 
> > pseudo-device   bpfilter        4       #Berkeley packet filter

OK, it didn't say you have to rebuild your kernel, but changing your
kernel config file generally implies this :-)

-- 
Ben Smithurst                                          ben@scientia.demon.co.uk

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