Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:48:43 -0700 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@felyko.com> Cc: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, Scott Long <scott4long@yahoo.com>, "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org>, Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>, "net@freebsd.org" <net@freebsd.org>, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com>, "cpet@sdf.org" <cpet@sdf.org> Subject: Re: ipfilter(4) needs maintainer Message-ID: <201304151748.r3FHmhC3002734@slippy.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Rui Paulo <rpaulo@felyko.com> of "Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:09:17 -0700." <18DF99B0-6E66-4906-A233-7778451B8A92@felyko.com>
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In message <18DF99B0-6E66-4906-A233-7778451B8A92@felyko.com>, Rui Paulo writes: > 2013/04/15 9:55$B!"(BCy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> $B$N%a%C%;!<%8(B: > > > I've been planning on taking on IP Filter for quite some time. > > Unfortunately I've left my src commit bit lapse (my ports commit bit is > > alive and well though) thus I'm looking for a mentor. In addition I'm > > working on an ACER WMI/ACPI kld. One mentor would be preferred but two > > would be fine too. > > What are your plans regarding ipfilter? I remain unconvinced that it should b > e in the base system. Perhaps you can work on it as a port? The initial plan was to import IP Filter 5.1.2 into HEAD. darrenr@ hadn't done much with IPF while employed with Sun. Since then there has been some development that is long overdue for HEAD. I'm not sure if I'd MFC it into 9 or not. I did consider a port but given it would has to touch bits and pieces of the source tree (/usr/src), a port would be messy and the decision was made to work on importing it into base. > > Why do you want to work on something that people have been trying to remove s > ince 2005? I and others have been using it in FreeBSD for over decade. For the longest of time we'd use a common set of rules across a FreeBSD and Solaris farm (using ipfmeta, makefiles, rsync, rdist, and a local CVS repo). Interoperability with other systems which use IP Filter is a plus. If there's a maintainer, it only makes FreeBSD richer. Losing IP Filter would be a loss. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org
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