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Date:      Thu, 23 Apr 1998 01:50:05 +1000 (EST)
From:      darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au
To:        eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund)
Cc:        julian@whistle.com, julian@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_fw.c
Message-ID:  <9804222327.AA01355@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au.>
In-Reply-To: <19980422155133.57092@follo.net> from "Eivind Eklund" at Apr 22, 98 03:51:33 pm

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In some email I received from Eivind Eklund, sie wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 04:31:13PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > Eivind Eklund wrote:
> > > This still doesn't solve the problems with IPFW (foremost, that
> > > extending the structure blow the userland interface).
> > 
> > why?
> > if you recompile it with a new structure...
> 
> That's what I'm saying - it blow the userland interface.  It means
> that anything using IPFW has to track the kernel version exactly.

There are numerous programs like this already - ps, netstat, top, etc.

I'd say "deal with it".

> > I agree on the new interface, but the limit on the structure size
> > was that each file rule had to fit into an mbuf.

see NetBSD's pfil(9) for a starting point.




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