From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 16 18:00:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA01809 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 18:00:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blackhole.iceworld.org (griffin@blackhole.iceworld.org [204.246.64.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA01797 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 18:00:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (griffin@localhost) by blackhole.iceworld.org (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA04242 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:00:02 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:00:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Jimbo Bahooli To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: lets get ipfilter as default Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Seeing ipfilter sitting in /usr/src/contrib, in a mostly disfunctional state, I find it irritating. Why not replace ipfw with it, I can find no advantage that ipfw has, other then being old and traditional. It is clearly better, and if its not integrated because it doesnt work, that is incorrect. When the first version came out with a freebsd port, proff patched it all up and it worked great. His patches may still be rotting in incoming on ftp.freebsd.org. I mean 3.0 is going to have SMP, why not give it a modern firewall program.