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Date:      Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:40:11 -0400
From:      Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_fw.c
Message-ID:  <20001003124011.T38472@jade.chc-chimes.com>
In-Reply-To: <200010031218.FAA51112@freefall.freebsd.org>; from ru@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 05:18:11AM -0700
References:  <200010031218.FAA51112@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 05:18:11AM -0700, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

>   Modified files:
>     sys/netinet          ip_fw.c 
>   Log:
>   Added the missing ntohs() conversion when matching IP packet with
>   the IP_FW_IF_IPID rule.  (We have recently decided to keep the
>   ip_id field in network byte order inside the kernel, see revision
>   1.140 of src/sys/netinet/ip_input.c).

Crappy. I haven't been following -current as closely as possible.

>   I did not like to have the conversion happen in userland, and I
>   think that the similar conversions for fw_tcp(seq|ack|win) should
>   be moved out of userland (src/sbin/ipfw/ipfw.c) into the kernel.

That's fine, I was just trying to save CPU (perhaps needlessly) by
doing the conversion when we store it as opposed to when we check it.

-- 
Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc.
                billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org





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