Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:32:25 +0100 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, vadim_nuclight@mail.ru Subject: Re: Review please: pfil FIRST/LAST Message-ID: <200803171332.26075.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <slrnftshvr.1dfj.vadim_nuclight@hostel.avtf.net> References: <200803160005.45827.max@love2party.net> <slrnftshvr.1dfj.vadim_nuclight@hostel.avtf.net>
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On Monday 17 March 2008 11:29:15 Vadim Goncharov wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:05:36 +0100; Max Laier wrote about 'Review please: pfil FIRST/LAST': > > attached is a small diff to allow pfil(9) consumers to force a > > sticky position on the head/tail of the processing queue. This > > can be used to do traffic conditioning kind of tasks w/o > > disturbing the other filters. I will need this to implement > > carp(4) ip based load balancing. While here I also removed a few > > paragraphs in BUGS which are no longer true (since we are using > > rmlocks for pfil(9)). > > > > I'd appreciate review of the logic in pfil_list_add - just to make > > sure I didn't botch it. Thanks. > > Could it be done a way which will allow user a simple configuration of > filter plly ordering? E.g. to specify that order must alway be "ipfw, > then pf". This is a separate issue. I had patches once to specify hook order via sysctl and will probably revisit this as I like the idea. For now, though, this is not what I'm interested in. -- /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News
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