Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:06:20 +0400 From: Aleksandr A Babaylov <.@babolo.ru> To: David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> Cc: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, Scott Long <scott4long@yahoo.com>, "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org>, Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@felyko.com>, "net@freebsd.org" <net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ipfilter(4) needs maintainer Message-ID: <20130419100620.GA94200@babolo.ru> In-Reply-To: <CAO%2BPfDcwtiUwmxcdLrxu-XCVso-hWNViJN%2BJ78TWL8My3epFGA@mail.gmail.com> References: <E2F803DD-1F3A-430E-957F-7AB1904CDF42@samsco.org> <96D56EAE-E797-429E-AEC9-42B19B048CCC@FreeBSD.org> <6DEDD3EA-45C1-4549-AA13-5E4F6674BE3E@samsco.org> <2D0B66DB-E232-4F34-9D01-57DF226B9BAA@FreeBSD.org> <2DA4A561-3304-432D-B5D1-7053A27E758F@yahoo.com> <F45FFB8A-4B54-4AEF-AA19-D96DAD0C399D@felyko.com> <CADLo839TyKF2dnONpQ6fyUAVOHG1dYYXih5wS3jANVZBiR=VTA@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1304140946440.10505@wonkity.com> <20130414160648.GD96431@in-addr.com> <CAO%2BPfDcwtiUwmxcdLrxu-XCVso-hWNViJN%2BJ78TWL8My3epFGA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:45:57AM +0200, David Demelier wrote: > 2013/4/14 Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>: > > Do we honestly need three packet filters? > > No, for me only one should be present. I completely understand that > some users still use IPFilter and IPFW but why providing three packet > filters? > > The answer should be: use one and document only one. If at the > beginning we started documenting only one all users should have used > the only one present. Now we really need to remove the ancestral > ipfilter and tell people switching to pf(4). IPFW. It is more logical and easy to use in complex context. > Everything in life change, if we need to maintain all code from the > past we will have a lot of compat code that pollute the full source > tree and we will never improve the code just because of old bits
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