From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 4 08:54:05 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA14565 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 08:54:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from seawall.ninthwave.com (ninthwave.com [209.31.6.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA14520 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 08:53:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdi@ninthwave.com) Received: from ninthwave.com (kuta.ninthwave.com [10.0.0.2]) by seawall.ninthwave.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA18967; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 08:53:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdi@ninthwave.com) Message-ID: <36B9D1BC.D2409BB5@ninthwave.com> Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 08:58:36 -0800 From: John Irwin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Wemm CC: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wanton Atticizing is bad References: <199812292011.EAA82011@spinner.netplex.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Eric J. Schwertfeger" wrote: > > There's two areas that IPFILTER seems to work better than IPFW, and both > > are NAT-related. > > I've been discussing this with various folks. > > What I see as the "best" solution to overcome the problem of a poorly > maintained (and old) copy in the tree is to make a port out of it and > remove the bulk of the code from the tree. Any chance of this happening (preferrably in 3.0-stable)? I need to run the newest version of IPFilter, and it's a bitch trying to hack out the old/hack in the new. Thanks, -- John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message