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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: IP Filter version 2.8
To: Guido.vanRooij@nl.cis.philips.com
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 17:22:15 +1000 (EST)
Cc: pst@cisco.com, security@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <m0sw1zJ-000HnfC@spooky.lss.cp.philips.com> from "Guido van Rooij" at Sep 22, 95 08:53:33 am
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In some mail from Guido van Rooij, sie said:
> 
> Guido van Rooij wrote:
> > 
> > Paul Traina wrote:
> > > 
> > > Should we be incorporating Darren's new code into FreeBSD?  It makes
> > > more sense to do that than to continue with Ugen's work on top of
> > > the old code.
> > > 
> > 
> > I agree. Darren's code is more used and thus it'll get more bugfixes 
> > and updates.
> > 
> > I don't know about licenses. 
> > 
> 
> Btw: do not forget that Darren's code has no accounting possibilities.
> Ugen's has.

What are the requirements for accounting ?

And why is an in-kernel mod. used for this rather than something like
NNstat ?  NNstat is much more powerful for this role.

darren