From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 30 22: 9:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linus.highpoint.edu (linus.highpoint.edu [192.154.46.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E02E337B409 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 22:09:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from zhartley@localhost) by linus.highpoint.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f9158RS18377 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 01:08:27 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 01:08:27 -0400 From: Zach Hartley To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Berkeley packet filter Message-ID: <20011001010827.A18339@linus.highpoint.edu> Mail-Followup-To: questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was looking through the GENERIC kernel configuration and noticed that it enables bpf by default, but warns the user to "be aware of the administrative consequences of this". So I was wondering, if its something to be worried about, why is it in GENERIC? Also, do I need it for anything? Zach -- Zachary Todd Hartley "Attempted murder. Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?" --Sideshow Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message