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Date:      Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:15:36 +0400
From:      Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark Martinec <Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ipfilter(4) needs maintainer
Message-ID:  <951943801.20130415141536@serebryakov.spb.ru>
In-Reply-To: <201304150025.07337.Mark.Martinec%2Bfreebsd@ijs.si>
References:  <20130411201805.GD76816@FreeBSD.org> <20130414160648.GD96431@in-addr.com> <36562.1365960622.5652758659450863616@ffe10.ukr.net> <201304150025.07337.Mark.Martinec%2Bfreebsd@ijs.si>

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Hello, Mark.
You wrote 15 =D0=B0=D0=BF=D1=80=D0=B5=D0=BB=D1=8F 2013 =D0=B3., 2:25:07:

>> Yes! This is the most clever thought in this thread. Why we need 3
>> firewalls? Two packet filters it's excess too. We have two packet filter=
s:
>> one with excellent syntax and functionality but with outdated bandwidth
>> control mechanism (aka ALTQ); another - with nice traffic
>> shaper/prioritization (dummynet)/classification (diffused) but with
>> complicated implementation  in not trivial tasks. May be the next step
>> will be discussion about one packet filter in the system?..

MM> ... and as far as I can tell none of them is currently usable
MM> on an IPv6-only FreeBSD (like protecting a host with sshguard),
MM> none of them supports stateful NAT64, nor IPv6 prefix translation :(
 IPv6 prefix translation?! AGAIN!? FML. I've thought, that IPv6 will
render all that NAT nightmare to void. I hope, IPv6 prefix translation
will not be possible never ever!

--=20
// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>




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