From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 29 12:26:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BA6B14C97 for ; Sat, 29 May 1999 12:26:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA92887; Sat, 29 May 1999 15:26:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 15:26:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, dg@root.com Subject: Re: proposed socket change (IPFW too? :) In-Reply-To: <199905291632.SAA15579@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 29 May 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > 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! Your sound drivers (and PnP too, right?) are both yours; and you seem to be the big IPFW maintainer right about now. > > > > 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! It cannot be simplified a lot, but it can definitely be cleaned up, reorganized, and optimized. ipfw.c itself is REALLY gross to try to use, and maybe it's due for a rewrite too. > > 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 > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \ _ \ |) | http://www.freebsd.org _ |___)___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message