Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 12:26:56 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org> To: Randy Terbush <randy@zyzzyva.com> Cc: Kent Hamilton <kenth@hns.st-louis.mo.us>, current@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPFW Wish List Item Message-ID: <5308.836162816@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Jun 1996 13:36:12 CDT." <199606301836.NAA16141@sierra.zyzzyva.com>
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In message <199606301836.NAA16141@sierra.zyzzyva.com>, Randy Terbush writes: > >Not to belittle the work that Poul and others have put into IPFW, >I can't help but ask, "Why reinvent the wheel?" > >Darren Reed has done a great job pulling together ip_filter. As near >as I can tell it offers every feature that IPFW does as well as NAT and >many other features that are being requested for addition to IPFW. > >Again, my comments are not intended to take away from the effort that >has been put into IPFW. It just seems that there is another option >available that could only be made better by making it the standard >packet filter for FreeBSD. It already sports many of the features >that are being requested for addition to IPFW. At the time there were various obstacles for that. I hope that somebody soon imports ipfilter too. I would like to see us having two implementations: ipfw for the lightweight stuff ipfilter for the heavy stuff. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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