On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 05:54:20PM +0200, george Nopicture wrote: > Hello. Since fedora aims to be one of the most secure distros, i > think packet socket support should be configured and compiled as a > module. Therefore one that needs to use nmap,tcpdump,wireshark and > other sniffing tools will still be able to do so but another who > doesn't want to will be able to blacklist the module. Just a thought > but i would appreciate a reply. Thanks. I believe dhclient needs the packet filter and packet socket options. Given that DHCP is pretty universal, modularizing packet socket may not make any sense. _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
