From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 21 18:50:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA26518 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 21 May 1998 18:50:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from beatrice.rutgers.edu (beatrice.rutgers.edu [165.230.209.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA26498 for ; Thu, 21 May 1998 18:50:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu) Received: (from easmith@localhost) by beatrice.rutgers.edu (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) id VAA25616; Thu, 21 May 1998 21:49:46 -0400 From: "Allen Smith" Message-Id: <9805212149.ZM25614@beatrice.rutgers.edu> Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 21:49:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: Jason Thorpe "Re: Questions about Packet Filter" (May 21, 6:07pm) References: <199805220107.SAA26775@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.3 08feb96 MediaMail) To: Jason Thorpe , Mike Smith Subject: Re: Questions about Packet Filter Cc: "L.C." , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On May 21, 6:07pm, Jason Thorpe (possibly) wrote: > On Thu, 21 May 1998 16:36:19 -0700 > Mike Smith 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