Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 20:54:57 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC... Message-ID: <37A3B701.851DF00B@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907301619280.6951-100000@janus.syracuse.net> <199907302342.RAA85088@harmony.village.org> <37A25361.34799F96@bellatlantic.net> <199907310140.SAA95581@apollo.backplane.com>
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Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> :> consistant with the meaning of "raw devices".
> :
> :Disabling bpf it will break rarpd (and also rbootd but it is less
> :important). I think such a thing should be mentioned in documentation.
> :
> :-SB
>
> Not if rarpd is started via the rc files... it would hook up to bpf
> prior to the securelevel being raised.
>
> But I agree about the documentation. The various server documentation
> as well as the inetd documentation should mention that bpf-using servers
> need to be started from the rc's when securelevel is used.
Do we have a list of all services that use bpf? I'm willing to edit the man
pages, given a list. I guess I could just grep-o-matic here, huh?
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