From owner-freebsd-net Mon Sep 7 12:45:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA22869 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 12:45:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA22851 for ; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 12:45:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id MAA19208; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 12:45:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma019204; Mon Sep 7 12:45:27 1998 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id MAA07690; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 12:45:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199809071945.MAA07690@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: Will the TEE function of IPFW be ever implemented/necessary ? In-Reply-To: <199809070245.EAA15917@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Sep 7, 98 04:45:44 am" To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 12:45:27 -0700 (PDT) Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Luigi Rizzo writes: > as the subject says, i was wondering if the TEE function in IPFW > will be ever implemented. I cannot see what it can do that would not be > possible using bpf, and from the point of view of efficiency also there > is no advantage, i think, since you have to copy the packet anyways... I think it makes sense to have it as an ipfw option.. the only problem is that it's just difficult to implement (because the divert code writes into the packet before delivery). Are you saying you want to implement it or get rid of it? :-) -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message