From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 29 11:58:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EF04F14C97 for ; Sat, 29 May 1999 11:58:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id SAA15579; Sat, 29 May 1999 18:32:35 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199905291632.SAA15579@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: proposed socket change (IPFW too? :) To: green@unixhelp.org (Brian Feldman) Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 18:32:35 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, dg@root.com In-Reply-To: from "Brian Feldman" at May 29, 99 10:19:37 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1244 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It's only truly associative with the socket itself, if you think about it. I'd like to see > what David thinks about this change, since networking is seemingly 'his' where IPFW is > 'yours'. nothing is mine, and certainly not IPFW -- i merely added the dummynet hooks! > > On the ipfw side, yes i think the switch to locate & check credential > > can be simplified by merging the final part (and perhaps even the > > in_pcblookup() calls). > > Yes, I think I'll clean up ipfw :) Parts of it are due for a rewrite, as the code has grown > unwieldly. correct. however, with rules being so "complex" (lots of things you can specify in a rule) the kernel part cannot be simplified a lot. The userland code, on the other hand, would really deserve some cleanup! cheers luigi -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522 . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ngc99/ ==== First International Workshop on Networked Group Communication ==== -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message