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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!lazrus.cca.rockwell.com!newssvr.cacd.rockwell.com!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.igcom.net!terra.igcom.net!david From: david@terra.igcom.net (David B. Bauman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: BSDI and SLiRP Date: 11 Mar 1996 16:44:15 GMT Organization: InterGlobal Communications Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4i1l8v$e2h@moon.igcom.net> References: <Do35r9.EHH@eskimo.com> <1996Mar11.033854.1@spcvxb.spc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: terra.igcom.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr. (terry@spcvxb.spc.edu) wrote: : In article <Do35r9.EHH@eskimo.com>, starcrow@eskimo.com (Mark Dreyer) writes: : > Is there a port of SLiRP for BSDI 2.x? I looked at ftp.bsdi.com and : > cdrom.com to no avail. Is someone working on this? : I don't recall any problems getting it to compile out-of-the-box. The : only issue is that there is a bug in 2.0/2.0.1 (supposedly fixed in 2.1, : I haven't checked) that can panic the system with a "trap type 12". : On a completely different note, does anybody have any ideas on how to : "break" a BSD/OS 2.x system so that SLiRP (and TIA, and MLINK, etc.) : won't do anything useful, while the rest of the system functions nor- : mally? I have a student system and modem pool that's being tied up by : people dialing in and running these utilities. We're not an ISP and we : don't want to have to buy more modems or restrict shell access to the : BSDI boxes. I've never worked with slirp or any slip emulator, but in my opinion the best way to deal with this problem is 'policy'. Simply forbid the use of the slirp applications on your system. Have some type of penalty for breaking that policy. David Bauman