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Date:      Sat, 25 Sep 1999 13:02:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>
To:        Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/tc am7990.c src/sys/contrib/dev/oltr if_oltr.c src/sys/dev/ed if_ed.c src/sys/dev/iicbus if_ic
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909251300270.87332-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990925165827.66C4214EC7@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Bill Paul wrote:

> > In message <199909251642.JAA07776@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, "Rodney W. Grimes" writes
> > :
> > 
> > >>   Remove NBPF conditionality of bpf calls in most of our network drivers.
> > >...
> > >
> > >Can I ask that work on this be stopped for a few days while I get a
> > >proper legal opinion on 18 USC 2510 et seq.
> > 
> > I suggest that have business as usual until we see what Sun does
> > about snoop in Solaris.  If they don't feel like they have a problem,
> > we most certainly doesn't have one either.
> 
> And SNOOP sockets in IRIX, and DLPI in HP-UX, and BPF in AIX (BPF is
> a loadable module in AIX, and tcpdump is included with the OS).

If you can't adequately monitor/supervise your network connections without
bpf, and you use it regularly to solve problems, then it's in the realm of
things like telephone linemen's test telephones, which can also be used to
bug lines, right?

Is that legal reference available online anywheres?

> 
> -Bill 
> 
> 

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