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Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:28:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Dru <genisis@istar.ca>
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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?

Hi John,

According to the release notes, bpf was enabled as of 3.3 Release:

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/3.3R/notes.html

Cheers,

Dru



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