Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 09:33:57 +0100 From: Cillian Sharkey <cillian@baker.ie> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Various Questions Message-ID: <37AFE3F5.E3EE47A1@baker.ie> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908091641460.1164-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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> > when a network interface is put into promiscuous mode, a kernel > > message is logged ie. "ep0: promiscuous mode enabled" are there plans > > to log the reverse of this message ie. "ep0: promiscuous mode > > disabled"..I think this was suggested before in the mailing-lists but > > did anything come of it ? > > Not that I saw. Patches would accelerate the process, probably :-) Patches certainly would.. :) > > can the code for network interfaces be dynamically loded (by loadable > > kernel modules) when they are needed ? ie. when I run ppp which uses > > the tun0 interface I need to manually "kldload if_tun" as I don't have > > tun support included in my (3.2-STABLE) kernel.. > > We're getting there. fxp is now a KLD and I expect more to follow. Just a more general question about kld's : will the kld mechanism eventually become more similar to the Linux way (ie. modules for just about every doohickey that could be compiled into the kernel, and a mechanism that dynamically loads and _unloads_ them ie.kerneld under Linux) or something different ? > > seeing as IPFILTER comes with fbsd now, are there any plans to > > incorporate it into the conf files ie (/etc/rc.firewall, etc..) in > > NetBSD they seem to have support for it (ie. in /etc/rc.conf there is > > a ipfilter=YES|NO ipnat=YES|NO option which use files like > > /etc/ipf.conf and /etc/ipnat.conf) ? > > Eh? what I mean is at the moment if I have a (theoretical) rule set in a file (say /etc/ipf.conf) for IPFILTER I would (from what I can gather) have to create my own /etc/rc.firewall to get ipf to read in the ruleset (and optionally get ipnat to read in the ipnat.conf ruleset etc.).. Are thare any plans to either replace ipfw with ipfilter in the future or to perhaps give people the option of using one or the other in the conf files..? > > last question (very trivial): is it possible to change the colour of > > the kernel messages (in i386 ports, FreeBSD seems to use bright white, > > NetBSD uses green and OpenBSD uses white on blue I think) > > Not without hacking the kernel printf(). well I might give it a try - it's high time I got my hands dirty and hacked some code.. :) - Cillian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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