Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:23:22 -0500 From: "Christopher G. Petrilli" <petrilli@amber.org> To: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Enabling bpf device in kernel (was: Re: tcpdump) Message-ID: <19990204102322.28863@amber.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902040505560.66070-100000@nomad.dataplex.net>; from Richard Wackerbarth on Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 05:10:40AM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990204095555.10265F-100000@www.babel.dk> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902040505560.66070-100000@nomad.dataplex.net>
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On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 05:10:40AM -0600, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > I think that the world is moving toward dhcp as the primary method of > learning appropriate IP configuration data. I would agree that this is true for clients, but I don't believe it will ever be true for servers... and remember, FreeBSD is a server first, and more often than it is a client I think... at least that our experience with it. I'm the only person who has a FreeBSD box on their desk as a client, but we have dozens of them as servers. > We need the dhcp client in /sbin and enabled by default. No, not enabled by default. > It is always possible to override this with static addresses. > The inverse is not true. Ick, I've never had anything but sickness with DHCP on Unices... I understand it's value, and in fact one of my FreeBSD boxes is a DHCP server for several hundered Wintel boxes... Hmm, I'm just affraid that we need to differentiate between clients and server installations. Maybe this should just be a sepearete installation option? "Are you installing a client or a server?" And based on this it decides what to do... DHCP default v. static, named running, v., not, etc... Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli | petrilli@amber.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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