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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: Integrating the NetBSD PFIL hooks..
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In-Reply-To: <19990320012046.01210B9@friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu> from "Chris Csanady" at Mar 19, 99 07:20:26 pm
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> What would it take for us to intergrate NetBSD's PFIL hooks?  It is
> hard to do much work in the current network stack with so much of
> the mess that currently exists.  At the very least, ip_input.c and
> ip_output.c would be much cleaner with this mechanism.
> 
> I'm just wondering what needs to be done, and if it is possible.
> Ipfilter would already support this, but how about ipfw, dummynet,
> divert and such?  Would the authors of the respective code be
> willing to help out with the necessary changes?

i'd be certainly willing to work on this.

	luigi


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