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Date:      Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:25:07 +0200
From:      Mark Martinec <Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ipfilter(4) needs maintainer
Message-ID:  <201304150025.07337.Mark.Martinec%2Bfreebsd@ijs.si>
In-Reply-To: <36562.1365960622.5652758659450863616@ffe10.ukr.net>
References:  <20130411201805.GD76816@FreeBSD.org> <20130414160648.GD96431@in-addr.com> <36562.1365960622.5652758659450863616@ffe10.ukr.net>

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On Sunday April 14 2013 19:30:22 wishmaster wrote:
> > Do we honestly need three packet filters?
> Yes! This is the most clever thought in this thread. Why we need 3
> firewalls? Two packet filters it's excess too. We have two packet filters:
> one with excellent syntax and functionality but with outdated bandwidth
> control mechanism (aka ALTQ); another - with nice traffic
> shaper/prioritization (dummynet)/classification (diffused) but with
> complicated implementation  in not trivial tasks. May be the next step
> will be discussion about one packet filter in the system?..

... and as far as I can tell none of them is currently usable
on an IPv6-only FreeBSD (like protecting a host with sshguard),
none of them supports stateful NAT64, nor IPv6 prefix translation :(

  Mark



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