Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 09:10:17 -0700 From: Edward Wang <edward@edcom.com> To: paul@vix.com Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: DEC screend in core FreeBSD Message-ID: <199504191610.JAA00737@edcom.com>
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/ The patches that need to be applied to ip_input.c are license-free. They (the few lines there are) are substantially rewritten for FreeBSD in any case. (Rather, I didn't have much luck getting it to work as is. Things may have changed.) / The new files (ip_screen.*, gw_screen.*, screend/*) are all restricted / by a DEC license such that no third party redistribution is permitted. / (This is an improvement over the previous license, let me assure you -- / and it's also the best I was able to get.) Sounds like time to reimplement it. I've seen the code though, so I'm not sure I qualify. The kernel hooks are tiny, but screend itself is bigger. Also, maybe the time is better spent improving ipfirewall. Is anyone actively working on that? Another thing: why can't the bpf stuff be used as the basis for a fire wall? It already has a filter compiler in tcpdump, no?
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