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Subject: Re[2]: ipfilter(4) needs maintainer
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 --- Original message ---
From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
Date: 14 April 2013, 19:06:59

 
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 09:48:33AM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> > Is it possible to move ipfilter into a port?
> 
> That may work short term, but the ENOMAINTAINER problem will quickly creep
> up again as kernel APIs change.  If the author has lost interest in
> maintaining the FreeBSD port of ipfilter then unless someone steps forward
> to carry on the work, I don't see much of a future for ipfilter in
> FreeBSD
> 
> Do we honestly need three packet filters?
  
    Yes! This is the most clever thought in this thread. Why we need 3 firewalls? Two packet filters it's excess too.
     We have two packet filters: one with excellent syntax and functionality but with outdated bandwidth control mechanism (aka ALTQ); another - with nice traffic shaper/prioritization (dummynet)/classification (diffused) but with complicated implementation  in not trivial tasks.
    May be the next step will be discussion about one packet filter in the system?..

Cheers,