From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jun 14 0: 2: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from iguana.icir.org (iguana.icir.org [192.150.187.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A90E37B42F for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 00:01:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rizzo@localhost) by iguana.icir.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g5E71CB97256; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 00:01:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rizzo) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 00:01:12 -0700 From: "'Luigi Rizzo'" To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipfw rewrite - new snapshot available Message-ID: <20020614000112.A96898@iguana.icir.org> References: <20020613171319.D93980@iguana.icir.org> <38614.1024037134@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <38614.1024037134@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 08:45:34AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 08:45:34AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20020613171319.D93980@iguana.icir.org>, "'Luigi Rizzo'" writes: > > >as I mentioned in a posting to -net a few days ago, over the past > >weeks I have done an extensive rewrite of the ipfw code (both userland > >and kernel) in an attempt to make it faster, more flexible and more > >manageable. > > Does your testing reveal if it is faster ? not tried yet, my day is only 24 hours and i am using lot of it already :( It does reveal that the new code is orders of magnitude easier to extend, debug and audit, which seems to me an equally important result. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message