From owner-freebsd-security Thu Feb 4 07:23:33 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA29445 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 07:23:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dworkin.amber.org (dworkin.amber.org [209.31.146.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA29440 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 07:23:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from petrilli@dworkin.amber.org) Received: (from petrilli@localhost) by dworkin.amber.org (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA03647; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:23:23 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19990204102322.28863@amber.org> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:23:22 -0500 From: "Christopher G. Petrilli" To: Richard Wackerbarth Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Enabling bpf device in kernel (was: Re: tcpdump) References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Richard Wackerbarth on Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 05:10:40AM -0600 X-Disclaimer: I hardly speak for myself, muchless anyone else. Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 05:10:40AM -0600, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > I think that the world is moving toward dhcp as the primary method of > learning appropriate IP configuration data. I would agree that this is true for clients, but I don't believe it will ever be true for servers... and remember, FreeBSD is a server first, and more often than it is a client I think... at least that our experience with it. I'm the only person who has a FreeBSD box on their desk as a client, but we have dozens of them as servers. > We need the dhcp client in /sbin and enabled by default. No, not enabled by default. > It is always possible to override this with static addresses. > The inverse is not true. Ick, I've never had anything but sickness with DHCP on Unices... I understand it's value, and in fact one of my FreeBSD boxes is a DHCP server for several hundered Wintel boxes... Hmm, I'm just affraid that we need to differentiate between clients and server installations. Maybe this should just be a sepearete installation option? "Are you installing a client or a server?" And based on this it decides what to do... DHCP default v. static, named running, v., not, etc... Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli | petrilli@amber.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message