From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 27 09:44:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA27093 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:44:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iq.org (proff@polysynaptic.iq.org [203.4.184.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA27019 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:44:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from proff@iq.org) Received: (qmail 24340 invoked by uid 110); 27 Jan 1998 17:45:52 -0000 To: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods) Cc: ipfilter@postbox.anu.edu.au (IP-Filter Mailing List) cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ip-filter integration into FreeBSD RELENG_2_2 References: From: Julian Assange Date: 28 Jan 1998 04:45:52 +1100 In-Reply-To: woods@most.weird.com's message of "Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:22:07 -0500 (EST)" Message-ID: Lines: 31 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 . 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.