From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 7 15: 1:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-117.max1-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.8.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A7AF14CAC; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 15:00:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA01166; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 17:01:51 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA99579; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 16:23:22 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199909071523.QAA99579@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Brad Knowles , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates in latest build? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 Sep 1999 01:35:23 PDT." <19990907013523.B10117@relay.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 16:23:19 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Someone else was kind enough to explain to me why bpf is needed > > -- DHCP depends on it. While I find this a very regrettable > > situation, and I would encourage work to try to help ensure that this > > And I encourage you to email obrien@nuxi.com a set of patches to either > dhclient or the kernel to get around this unfortunate dependence. They > will be graciously accepted and committed. And while you're at it, please send me patches to implement PPPoE without bpf :-) > -- > -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message