Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 19:14:07 +1030 (CST) From: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org> To: smelekov@vniigazmain.gazprom.ru (Serguei V. Melekhov) Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TCPdump Message-ID: <199902080844.TAA14205@atdot.dotat.org> In-Reply-To: <36BE9C67.2F79B121@vniigazmain.gazprom.ru> from "Serguei V. Melekhov" at Feb 8, 99 11:12:24 am
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Serguei V. Melekhov wrote:
> I vote 'NO'. We shouldn't let someone install bsd with default
> bpf enabled option. Cause alot of lamers don't even know what r they
> doing.
How many of us here remember the criticism Sun used to get with
SunOS 4.x because the nit device was enabled by default?
I repeat my earlier suggestion: provide a "kernel" distribution
containing GENERIC kernels tuned for different purposes. Let the
user decide whether they get bpf by default.
- mark
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