From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 1 1:57:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk (cabletel1.cableol.net [194.168.3.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6471A37B408 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 01:57:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ceri by cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk with local (Exim 3.31 #1) id 15nysa-000366-00; Mon, 01 Oct 2001 09:56:48 +0100 Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 09:56:48 +0100 From: Ceri To: Zach Hartley Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Berkeley packet filter Message-ID: <20011001095648.B1780@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> References: <20011001010827.A18339@linus.highpoint.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011001010827.A18339@linus.highpoint.edu>; from zhartley@linus.highpoint.edu on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:08:27AM -0400 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 On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:08:27AM -0400, Zach Hartley said: > 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? IIRC, GENERIC warns you to be wary of the consequences of _disabling_ bpf. Ceri -- I probably wouldn't like you. Really. I really probably wouldn't like you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message