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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ipfw ipfw.8
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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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