Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 21:20:55 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> Cc: jmb@FreeBSD.org, committers@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Introduction Message-ID: <19990618212055.A61311@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906181343580.75966-100000@janus.syracuse.net>; from Brian Fundakowski Feldman on Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 01:50:09PM -0400 References: <19990618200140.A28527@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906181343580.75966-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 01:50:09PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > 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. > Agreed. So, Jonathan, could you please create <ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG> for us? > 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've closed a number of ipfw's PRs last week, most of them were for ipfw(8). Cheers, -- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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