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Date:      Mon, 13 May 2002 13:43:53 +0200 (SAT)
From:      John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
To:        phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Cc:        luigi@FreeBSD.org (Luigi Rizzo), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net if_ethersubr.c src/sys/netinet ip_dummynet.c ip_dummynet.h
Message-ID:  <200205131143.g4DBhrH38559@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <13232.1021289258@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "May 13, 2002 01:27:38 pm"

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> >...
> >> But couldn't you easily add a new rulechain for the ethernet
> >> rules ?  That seems both clean and simple to me ?
> >
> >yes, in fact this is probably what i will end up doing.
> >Just trying to figure out what to put in the ip_fw struct to
> >instruct the kernel to link the rule in the other chain.
> >
> >> Besides, if we want to clean up, 5.0 is the time to do it...
> >
> >there is more to that. After looking at how bloated the code has
> >become, i have definitely come to the conclusion that we have two
> >choices here (not mutually exclusive):
> 
> Even better yet:
> 
> 	+ Make the ipfw program a "ipfw rule to C compiler" and
> 	  kldload the compiled C code.

Would one still be able to add or remove a single rule then? That is
a very usefull feature for me.

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org

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