From owner-freebsd-security Tue Feb 29 10:28:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.79.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D07837BC4C for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:28:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.79.115]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA25648; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:28:27 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA26051; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:28:26 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:28:26 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200002291828.LAA26051@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Garrett Wollman Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG (All) Subject: Re: ipfw log accounting In-Reply-To: <200002291809.NAA57250@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <200002291750.JAA82610@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <200002291809.NAA57250@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > < said: > > > all broadcast traffic, unless you have a very rare installation that > > does not need broadcast packets to work on the directly attached network. > > Not rare at all -- you've just described every network in the world > which has not been inflicted with either RIP or YP/NIS. (This *is* > the security list, after all!) Or DHCP, or BOOTP, or NetBUI, or some forms of NTP, etc... I agree that broadcast protocols are to be avoided, but sometimes they are the best (most effecient as well as most effective) ways of skinning a cat. Sometimes they can't be avoided.... Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message