From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 30 15:42:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC48937B422 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 15:42:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id PAA30889; Wed, 30 May 2001 15:41:29 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda30887; Wed May 30 15:41:17 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.2/8.9.1) id f4UMfCP04924; Wed, 30 May 2001 15:41:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from UNKNOWN(10.1.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdmI4922; Wed May 30 15:40:16 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.4/8.9.1) id f4UMe1J18763; Wed, 30 May 2001 15:40:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200105302240.f4UMe1J18763@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdk18751; Wed May 30 15:39:18 2001 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-Sender: schubert To: dive Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should IPFilter be pulled from FreeBSD as well In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 30 May 2001 13:48:00 PDT." <20010530134800.A24208@dragon.ender.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 15:39:18 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010530134800.A24208@dragon.ender.com>, dive writes: > I'm in favor of keeping ipf in the base system, since the base system is (und > erstandably) > watched a lot more closely for bugs and generally things tend to get fixed in > the base > more quickly (such as the recent fragmentation issue in ipfilter) > I use ipfilter / ipnat in favor of ipfw/natd, since ipnat greatly outperforms > natd in my I raised this issue on -arch when it was discussed to move some software from the base system to ports. I was told that ports are maintained to the same standard as the base FreeBSD. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message