On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:27:02PM -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> The idea sounds neat, especially for computer labs and the like.
> Unfortunately, I think this implementation is far too difficult to be used
> effectively. Could you instead cause bpf to only return packets dhclient
> would use? That would allow bpf to be used by any process, but only be
> useful to dhclient.
I believe the proposal in the distant past was to install a
non-revocable bpf filter which did this. Actually, the scheme listed
has pretty much no hope of working in a devfs world because the majors
file is going to be shot eventualy and thus you may well not be able to
count on your disks being at the same device number.
-- Brooks
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