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Date:      Tue, 3 Mar 1998 13:15:25 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Patches in support of security
Message-ID:  <199803031815.NAA24284@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980228224400.14331Y-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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<<On Sat, 28 Feb 1998 22:48:29 -0500 (EST), "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> said:

> This looks useful.  (or at least is a useful first step)  While some
> policies may be enforced with creative firewall rules, these patches
> provide a clean interface at the application level.

This seems potentially acceptable.  A couple of nits:

1) The socket option in question is clearly also applicable to UDP
sockets (and those of any other IP-based protocol).  It should be an
IP-level option, not a TCP-level one.

2) Read style(9).

-GAWollman

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