In message <8605.933365...@zippy.cdrom.com> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: : It already is. That's not the question under discussion here - we're : talking about how to make things work in the post-installation boot : scenario.
I'm in favor of having it in the kernel by default. With one proviso. Any place where we talk about locking down a FreeBSD machine, we'd need to make it explicit that bpf should be turned off when you wish to make it hard for intruders to get packets off your wire in a root compromize situation. I wonder if /dev/bpf should be disabled when secure level is > 1 or 2... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message