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Date:      Thu, 17 Jun 1999 10:46:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      brooks@one-eyed-alien.net
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: changes to ether_output()
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.05.9906171045170.29763-100000@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199906170305.FAA14875@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>

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On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> > I've been doing some work which caused me to want to write a simple
> > userland bridging/filtering program (don't ask ;-).  The easy way to do it
> 
> ok, i won't ask, just remind you that freebsd (in 2.2.8, 3.2, 4.x)
> has bridging integrated with the ipfw so you can do bridging and
> filtering entirely in the kernel using standard tools -- you can even
> use the PicoBSD images from http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/
> for this

I know, I'm using that code when my bridge isn't running.  It's just that
I want to keep my filtering (and packet mangling) in userland so the
system doesn't panic when I do something stupid.

-- Brooks



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