From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 4 11:52:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com [207.113.159.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C34C837B71A for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 11:52:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from imap.gv.tsc.tdk.com (imap.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.198]) by gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08969; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 11:52:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.194]) by imap.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA62077; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 11:52:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com) Received: (from gdonl@localhost) by salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA27955; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 11:52:40 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis Message-Id: <200103041952.LAA27955@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 11:52:39 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20010304012338.A52971@pit.databus.com> References: <20010303203733.A49750@palomine.net> <200103040211.SAA24825@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> <20010303211958.A50525@palomine.net> <200103040230.SAA25152@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> <20010304012338.A52971@pit.databus.com> X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(5) 10/07/98) To: Barney Wolff , Don Lewis Subject: Re: Did ipfw fwd just break? Cc: Chris Johnson , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mar 4, 1:23am, Barney Wolff wrote: } Subject: Re: Did ipfw fwd just break? } I question whether this complexity is necessary. The effect of the } tranparent proxying could just as well have been achieved by } translating to an alias address that is assigned to the interface, } rather than to localhost, right? Simpler is better, in the kernel. Correct, but most of this patch fixes other breakage. Restoring ipfw fwd to its former functionality just required adding one term to the expression used to set the checkif variable. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message