Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 08:39:15 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: jkh@FreeBSD.org (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall tcpip.c Message-ID: <199907220639.IAA25913@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199907220851.BAA87161@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jul 22, 99 01:51:25 am
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> The ultimate answer here is to make either bpf a loadable kernel module > (which security conscious admins will be able to simply remove from /modules) > or come up with a lighter weight mechanism just for dhcp and other apps that > need to see broadcast packets but not otherwise sniff the wire in full > bpf glory. can you briefly summarise your (i.e. dhcp's) needs ? I am curious why bootpd works without bpf... cheers luigi -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522 . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ngc99/ ==== First International Workshop on Networked Group Communication ==== -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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