From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Nov 25 13:22:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F10114E9C for ; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 13:22:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA29184 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 22:22:39 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id WAA41332 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 22:22:39 +0100 (MET) Received: from gvr.gvr.org (gvr.gvr.org [194.151.74.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EE9B14C99; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 13:22:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from guido@gvr.org) Received: by gvr.gvr.org (Postfix, from userid 657) id AE51CA84A; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 22:22:29 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 22:22:29 +0100 From: Guido van Rooij To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Julian Elischer , "Rodney W. Grimes" , Brian Fundakowski Feldman , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new IPFW Message-ID: <19991125222229.A55360@gvr.gvr.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Kris Kennaway on Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 01:30:53AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 01:30:53AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On another track, someone already raised the issue of ipfilter - this is > as close to a standard as there is in the UNIX firewalling world > (especially as the other BSDs use it exclusively). Of course, basing work > on ipfilter isn't necessarily compatible with revolutionising the guts of > the code, but we could provide a compatible interface. An ipfw->ipfilter > rule translator can't be that difficult (I'm assuming the ipfilter > functionality is a superset of ipfw, which seems to be at least > approximately true). Darren Reed also makes a filter compilr that can output ipfilter stuff, cisco access lists etc. Perhaps it's worthwhile to add ipfw support. I believe ne can find it at http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ -Guido To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message