Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:51:21 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Adding a new feature to 2.2 series? Message-ID: <33A82019.FF6D5DF@whistle.com>
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Whistle communications is one of the major users and maintainers of the ipfw and diversion code. (we wrote the latter and have helped maintian the former) We also have based our product around the 2.2 family of FreeBSD. We have added significant functionality to the ipfw code in -curremt but would like to have this same functionality in the version we actually use for the product. (i.e. 2.2 series) There is an interface change involved in the ipfw changes, but the command-line view remains compatible. The question is whether this is acceptable in 2.2 considering the limited use of this interface. I'd like to back-port the -current changes to 2.2. While we presently have a system that allows us to selectively use our own files instead of those coming in from freebsd.org, that does have problems in some ways and we'd rather keep such things to a minimum. If there are no objections, I'd like to merge in the changes from -current (now several weeks old) into 2.2 (actually I'd directly import our 2.2 based patches that have been in testing for several months now.) If there are violent objections please speak up now!! I'll try to address any problems that are raised.. julian.
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