Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:40:15 +1000 From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au> To: charon@labs.gr (Giorgos Keramidas) Cc: Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net, darrenr@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ipfilter changes in rc.network (was: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc.network) Message-ID: <200110250040.KAA06332@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> In-Reply-To: <20011025032742.A4399@hades.hell.gr> from Giorgos Keramidas at "Oct 25, 1 03:27:43 am"
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In some email I received from Giorgos Keramidas, sie wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:45:11PM +0200, Gerhard Sittig wrote: > > > > I get the feeling this - inappropriate - setting of a _program > > variable is due to my misguided suggestion in PR conf/20202 > > which verbatimly made it into the FreeBSD start scripts. If it > > doesn't fit the usual rules feel free to correct it! :) After > > all I was a newbee to FreeBSD then (and still I'm not a guru or > > seasoned hacker:) as well as I understand Darren to do his > > daytime job with SunOS / Solaris and since he might need some > > hints on how his software fits even better into FreeBSD. I guess > > he will happily accept patches improving a wrong approach. > > > > Maybe there's need for the following parts: > > - ipfilter_program > > - ipfilter_prerules_flags > > - ipfilter_rules > > - ipfilter_postrules_flags > > ? The current situation comes from the fact that I wanted to > > have a single variable with the rules file only - to check for > > its existance (if such an additional constraints check matters). > > Done. I tested on my -current (compiled on Oct 22) the patch you can > find at http://labs.gr/~charon/patches/diff.04.ipf-rc-U > It is functionally equivalent to our current rc.network behavior, but > it uses the variables you proposed, and it moves all the flags out of > all the XXX_program variables. How many of the patches at http://labs.gr/~charon/patches/ should go into FreeBSD-current ? Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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