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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!rsg1.er.usgs.gov!ukma!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!isgate!veda.is!adam From: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Subject: Re: NetBSD on cheap boxes References: <2h2u3kINN6o3@ymir.cs.umass.edu> <2h63s8$4s2@smurf.noris.de> <GLASS.94Jan14170432@sun-lamp.postgres.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 07:24:27 GMT Message-ID: <CJpoL6.BIx@veda.is> Lines: 13 glass@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Adam Glass) writes: >A better solution though would be a packet filterer based on BPF. The >BPF "language" is pretty powerful, can express more powerful filters, >and is not IP-only. I think this solution would be worth the >additional implementation complexity. Could BPF be used to implement a combination lock to reboot the system for those times that it hangs and is pingable but otherwise dead? I guess it would be more reliable as a kernel patch, but would either approach work? -- adam@veda.is