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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
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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?

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adam@veda.is