From owner-freebsd-net Thu Sep 10 14:01:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25146 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 14:01:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA25135 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 14:01:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id OAA17773; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 14:01:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma017765; Thu Sep 10 14:00:38 1998 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id OAA08706; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 14:00:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199809102100.OAA08706@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: Will the TEE function of IPFW be ever implemented/necessary ? In-Reply-To: <199809090541.HAA17889@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Sep 9, 98 07:41:23 am" To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 14:00:38 -0700 (PDT) Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Luigi Rizzo writes: > > > > I'd prefer that someone implemented it, because a few people have > > > > asked for it, but on the other hand if no one is even going to implement > ... > > Well, all I can say is that I don't know what people might want > > to use it for, but people always seem to find a way to suprise us > > but you said a few people have asked for it! so what they want it for... I don't know... they just asked about it. :-) > > I'm just making this up and it's not a great example, but my point > > is that it's not for you or me to decide that there are no applications > > except for a very tiny detail... who is going to write this code :) but > let's do as you suggest, and leave it alone... it's just about ten > lines of useless code after all :) I plead guilty for never getting around to implementing it. It's still somewhere on my list tho' .. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message