Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 21:49:46 -0400 From: "Allen Smith" <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu> To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: "L.C." <lc001@yahoo.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions about Packet Filter Message-ID: <9805212149.ZM25614@beatrice.rutgers.edu> In-Reply-To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> "Re: Questions about Packet Filter" (May 21, 6:07pm) References: <199805220107.SAA26775@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On May 21, 6:07pm, Jason Thorpe (possibly) wrote: > On Thu, 21 May 1998 16:36:19 -0700 > Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> wrote: > > > > 1. Are the ipfilter tools using divert() function that Mike and Dan > > > mentioned available in somewhere? > > > > ipfilter is Darren Reed's in-kernel firewall product. > > > > divert(4) is a FreeBSD-native feature. It is not, to the best of my > > knowledge, emulated by anything else. > > Uh... doens't IP Filter implement a divert(4)-like feature? > Yes... indeed, it's a considerably better one than divert(4) for many purposes. It's a major reason we're going with it instead of ipfw for a FreeBSD firewall computer. -Allen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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