Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 19:06:04 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ipfw ipfw.8 Message-ID: <3940510C.2781E494@elischer.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006081257400.9490-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>
> > > What are your thoughts on just importing ALTQ? There's a 4.0-RELEASE port
> > > available and so it should be quite easy to integrate, instead of
> > > duplicating functionality from there.
> >
> > it is not plain duplication of functionality. There is some
> > overlap, but it is only partial.
> >
> > You also have to consider ease of use for people already
> > using ipfw/dummynet, and ease of implementation/testing
> > for the developer (myself and kenjiro) who should do the port.
> > If you look at the changes, the code to support WFQ in dummynet
> > is in the order of 500 lines, many of them being comment and
> > [gs]etsockopt() support.
>
> I guess what concerns me is stuffing more and more code into ipfw, which
> is already a pretty complicated and messy beast.
I would like to see the functioality of ipfw broken out to a set of
netgraph modules.
Netgraph in -current now has the capability of supporting this.
>
> Kris
>
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