Re: Disadvantage to building with unused options?

Steve Snyder wrote:
>
> My build of Squid was configured at build time with the
> "--enable-snmp" and "--enable-icmp" options. Given that I don't use
> those feature, would it be adviseable to rebuild without them?

--enable-icmp is "evil", and should not be used unless you really really
want to. It causes your Squid to probe the network with ICMP queries.

Having --enable-snmp compiled is not much of a deal, provided you have
disabled the snmp port in squid.conf (snmp_port 0).

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker