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Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 11:30:56 -0700
From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ipfw Makefile ipfw2.c src/sys/netinet ip_dummynet.c ip_fw.h ip_fw2.c src/sys/conf files src/lib/libalias alias_db.c
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On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 02:22:57PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
...
> > For the userland part, but i am considering moving most of the
> > functionality into a library or something like that, which will accept a
> > string and parse&translate it into an appropriate data structure to be
...
> Having the ipfw management code in a library would be great -- make it
> much easier to write integrated firewall management tools.

do you think ascii strings are a good high level representation
of the rules to be translated ?

I cannot think of anything else that would not break when we
try to extend the rules.

	cheers
	luigi

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