Proposal regarding the RFC 3514 handling

[Daniel C. Sobral]

Mmmmmm. I fear the repecursion of my planned loader regex support 
changes... :-)

Jordan K Hubbard wrote:
> All of this discussion begs the question, however:  Since we've set a 
> precedent here, when does Jim Fleming's IPv8 support get rolled in?   
> FreeBSD could certainly use "stargates" as a way of impressing Julian's 
> Linux-using friends!
> 
> - Jordan
> 
> On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 11:48 AM, Peter Wemm wrote:
> 
>> Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>>
>>> 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...
>>
>>
>> Personally, I tend to agree.
>>
>>> 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).
>>
>>
>> Exactly.  We're supposed to be doing FreeBSD for our own enjoyment.  If
>> others get use from it then fine.  The day that we're no longer 
>> allowed to
>> have fun because it might upset somebody in some fortune-500 company will
>> be a sad day indeed.  Nobody said we had to be 100% deadly serious the
>> whole time.
>>
>> .. as long as having a bit of fun doesn't get in the way..  An option 
>> would
>> stop it being in the code execution paths.
>>
>> On the other hand, we have so much cruft in the ip input/output code 
>> paths
>> (2 or 3 different packet filter hooks etc), this is tiny by comparison.
>>
>> Anyway, I think Matthew is going to to remove it, so maybe its a moot 
>> point.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Peter
>> -- 
>> Peter Wemm - peter at wemm.org; peter at FreeBSD.org; peter at yahoo-inc.com
>> "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
>>
>>
> -- 
> Jordan K. Hubbard
> Engineering Manager, BSD technology group
> Apple Computer
> 
> 


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Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
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