Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:50:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Introduction Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906181343580.75966-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <19990618200140.A28527@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>
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On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 12:24:16PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > Hello, I'm Brian Feldman, a new committer to the FreeBSD source tree! Some of > > the things I'll be working on are: > > - maintaining and improving IPFW (cleanups too, of course) > Let's join our efforts in this area! > IPFW code is very ugly... Which is basically due to it being hacked on for years without a cleanup. Now's the time (between major versions) to do this, I think. How's this: let's organize a small group to bounce ideas off eachother, first of all (I'm forwarding this to hackers to perhaps elicit a response of more people.) We should get ideas on what people think is wrong with the current implementation, what new features should be added, and where we should rearchitect. IPFW is reasonably small enough to redesign/reimplement in a few weeks (with multiple intelligent people working on it, of course =), so I think this is a worthwhile project. So Ruslan, why don't we organize a small group that will be doing this (this being the rewrite, and BTW I really want the external interface to IPFW to be backward-compatible)? We should then look through any relevant PRs and make sure to have all the info we need before undertaking this. > > I hope this is the kind of thing Jordan wanted! > > > John Birrell (IIRC). Everyone would always appreciate some introduction :) > > > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ > > green@freebsd.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ > > FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | > > http://www.freebsd.org _ |___/___/___/ > > > > > > -- > Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the > ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, > ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, > +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine > > http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve > http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age > > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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