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From: John Murphy <john253@crosswinds.net>
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Subject: bpf enabled in default kernel?
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 17:05:12 +0000
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In the FreeBSD Security How-To at:
http://people.freebsd.org/~jkb/howto.html#bpf
it says 'By default FreeBSD's kernel does not support BPF.'

and yet in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC there is a line:
pseudo-device bpf       #Berkeley packet filter

Is the default kernel generated from something other than GENERIC,
or is bpf disabled in some way by default?

Thanks again
John.


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