From owner-freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 18 15:06:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF76C16A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:06:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from iscan1.intra.oki.co.jp (okigate.oki.co.jp [202.226.91.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16D8643D45 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:06:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yamamoto436@oki.com) Received: from aoi.okilab.oki.co.jp (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by iscan1.intra.oki.co.jp (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA06893 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 08:05:50 +0900 Received: (qmail 32551 invoked from network); 19 Dec 2003 08:06:01 +0900 Received: from tulip.okilab.oki.co.jp (172.24.23.187) by aoi.okilab.oki.co.jp with SMTP; 19 Dec 2003 08:06:01 +0900 Received: from localhost (tulip [172.24.23.187])hBIN62HL029145; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 08:06:03 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from yamamoto436@oki.com) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 08:06:02 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <20031219.080602.26517061.yamamoto436@oki.com> To: rizzo@icir.org From: Hideki Yamamoto In-Reply-To: <20031218082605.A2252@xorpc.icir.org> References: <1071763256.543.10.camel@ptp.northnetworks.ca> <20031219.011213.27797873.yamamoto436@oki.com> <20031218082605.A2252@xorpc.icir.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.2 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPFW for IPv6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: IPFW Technical Discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 23:06:09 -0000 Dear Luigi, I am very happy to hear that you and your student are working on this matter. I hope you will release the beta or something as soon as possible. By the way, does it run on FreeBSD 5.1 base or 4.9? Regards, Hideki Yamamoto From: Luigi Rizzo Subject: Re: IPFW for IPv6 Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 08:26:05 -0800 Message-ID: <20031218082605.A2252@xorpc.icir.org> > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 01:12:13AM +0900, Hideki Yamamoto wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I am interested in ipfw for IPv6, especially on dummynet. > > Does someone have information on ipfw for IPv6? > > Two students of mine have a basically working version of > ipfw2 for ipv6 (with dummynet too). I need to review the code > before making patches available, though. > > In the detail, the layer2 version of the code (where ipv6 fields > are matched within ether_input()/ether_output(), are ok, > whereas the layer3 version (call from ip6input(), ip6output()) > need a bit more debugging when used with dummynet because suspending > and resuming computation within ip6output() is tricky for the > amount of state around -- that was time consuming in ipv4 as well. > > cheers > luigi