Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 02:38:32 -0600 From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: So, AGAIN, why was tcpdump moved? Message-ID: <20000331023831.A370@holly.calldei.com> In-Reply-To: <200003310828.AAA02707@windsor.research.att.com> References: <200003310828.AAA02707@windsor.research.att.com>
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On Friday, March 31, 2000, Bill Fenner wrote: > It didn't occur to me that this would change where tcpdump lived > (i.e. it seemed like libcrypto was part of FreeBSD) so it wasn't an > explicit choice on my part to move distributions. I agree that's a bad > side effect. It's easy to disable the decrypting-ESP feature if the > disadvantage of having it is greater than the advantage. Well, I believe the disadvantage greatly outweighs the advantage in this situation. On one hand you have a tcpdump that can decrypt ESP and on the other you have systems that don't have tcpdump because they didn't install crypto. -- |Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> |Managing programmers is like herding cats. `------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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