From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 31 0:38:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from holly.calldei.com (adsl-208-191-146-189.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net [208.191.146.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D77837BE0D for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:38:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@holly.calldei.com) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.calldei.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA01096; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 02:38:32 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from chris) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 02:38:32 -0600 From: Chris Costello To: Bill Fenner Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: So, AGAIN, why was tcpdump moved? Message-ID: <20000331023831.A370@holly.calldei.com> Reply-To: chris@calldei.com References: <200003310828.AAA02707@windsor.research.att.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.4i In-Reply-To: <200003310828.AAA02707@windsor.research.att.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 |Managing programmers is like herding cats. `------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message