From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 30 4:13:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shark.harmonic.co.il (jupiter.harmonic.co.il [192.116.140.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93E3C37B4C5 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 04:13:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (roman@localhost) by shark.harmonic.co.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA18851; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:13:15 +0200 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:13:15 +0200 (IST) From: Roman Shterenzon To: Gerhard Sittig Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reminder: Just 7 days till 4.2 code freeze! In-Reply-To: <20001025193645.O25237@speedy.gsinet> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Gerhard Sittig wrote: > PR 20202 (ipf invoked from rc.network) would be a good candidate > for an MFC. I understand quite a number of FreeBSD users have > ipf running (either instead of ipfw or even besides it). This > patch was committed in -CURRENT on October 6th and I haven't seen > _any_ negative reaction but quite some demand for something like > this in the release (and I raised the question quite a few times > in public whether this extension still has something missing or > does its good intensions in the wrong and maybe dangerous way, I > could even have bothered or annoyed some of you). I - speaking > as the originator - feel this PR to be complete, correct and > implemented cleanly. Feel free to disagree, but unless I hear > something different I will keep thinking I did it OK :) and > others could estimate this feature being in the release. I'd definetely would like to see this MFCed. I use ipf.sh in /usr/local/etc/rc.d for that purposes, and it seems quite strange for starting a system component. --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message