Proposal regarding the RFC 3514 handling

[Alexander Leidinger]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 00:21:44 -0800 (PST)
"Matthew N. Dodd" <mdodd at freebsd.org> wrote:

> mdodd       2003/04/01 00:21:44 PST
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sbin/ping            ping.8 ping.c 
>     share/man/man4       inet.4 ip.4 
>     sys/netinet          in.h in_pcb.h ip.h ip_input.c ip_output.c 
>                          ip_var.h 
>     usr.bin/netstat      inet.c 
>   Log:
>   Implement support for RFC 3514 (The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header).

In the light of the actual "force" against this commit: perhaps it would
be ok for all involved parties to only compile this code in based upon a
kernel option...

In my POV: people which don't know enough about this topic would IMHO
not be concerned about this code, and people which know enough to have a
reason to compile or not compile this code into the kernel should also
know enough about FreeBSD to not regard this code as a lack of
professionalism (and see it as what it is: there are people which enjoy
to invest their time into FreeBSD... and this is what makes FreeBSD what
it is).

We don't have to add it to the release notes if we don't want to add it.

Bye,
Alexander.

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