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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


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