From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 2 9:16:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from joe.pythonvideo.com (joe.pythonvideo.com [209.226.29.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A37637B400 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 09:16:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (joe@localhost) by joe.pythonvideo.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eB2HGKQ26580; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:16:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from joe@advancewebhosting.com) X-Authentication-Warning: joe.pythonvideo.com: joe owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:16:20 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Oliveiro X-Sender: joe@joe.pythonvideo.com To: john@T-F-I.freeserve.co.uk Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bpf enabled in default kernel? In-Reply-To: <4e8i2t0mrjf4e0rsautrm5sepgq1oq1r7q@4ax.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG pseudo-device bpfilter 1 #Berkeley packet filter is enabled by default in my GENERIC kernel configurations, atleast in 3.5-s they are. pseudo-device bpf #Berkeley packet filter unser 4.x, it appears to be enabled by default in the GENERIC kernel configuration also. Whether the system by default uses these is a different story. FreeBSD - The BEST upgrade you can do to NT! On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, John Murphy wrote: > 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. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message