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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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