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Date:      28 Jan 1998 04:45:52 +1100
From:      Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>
To:        woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ip-filter integration into FreeBSD RELENG_2_2
Message-ID:  <wxk9blzu7j.fsf@polysynaptic.iq.org>
In-Reply-To: woods@most.weird.com's message of "Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:22:07 -0500 (EST)"
References:  <m0xxDm3-00076xC@most.weird.com>

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woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods) writes:

> So, I've been in the process of helping a client build FreeBSD 2.2
> stable releases and we've been trying to integrate ip-filter into the
> source tree so that our internal release builds would be all ready to
> go.
> 
> I thought this would be easy.  I'd planned to just check out the 3.0
> branch and take a peek to see how it was done there and mimic it.  Now I
> admit that we've not yet actually built a 3.0 tree, but for the life of
> me I can't find any thread of reference to how ip-filter user-land might
> be constructed and installed in the 3.0 tree.  It just seems to sit in
> the contrib sub-directory all on its own.
> 
> (The kernel integration was of course quite straight forward once we
> manually re-patched the conf/files file and fixed one header that was
> missing <machine/cpufunc.h>.  I'll forward patches and a new
> FreeBSD-2.2/kinstall script.)
> 
> If anyone has any hints or pointers to FreeBSD-style makefiles for the
> ip-filter user-land stuff, I'd greatly appreciate receiving them!
> 

I did this about 8 months ago. Nobody bothered to incorporate it into
3.0 though. Have a look in ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/incoming for
ipfilter-proff-final2.tar.gz or words to that effect. If you know
someone who will bother incorporating it into -current, this is a good
place to start.

Cheers,
Julian.



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