Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 12:28:55 +1000 (EST) From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au> To: green@unixhelp.org (Brian Fundakowski Feldman) Cc: npp@distortion.dk, ru@ucb.crimea.ua, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: firewalling (Was Re: Introduction) Message-ID: <199906190228.MAA11563@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906182202240.85521-100000@janus.syracuse.net> from Brian Fundakowski Feldman at "Jun 18, 99 10:04:30 pm"
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In some email I received from Brian Fundakowski Feldman, sie wrote: > How do you feel about (after getting it fixed in -CURRENT) helping with > converting ipfw(8) to just a front-end to ipf? I think it's worth discussing > whether it's actually worth it to rewrite IPFW or just work on improving > ipfilter. (discussion moved to -hackers) I imagine they might be fighting words to some ;) As I see it, if you added hooks for divert to ipfilter in FreeBSD and maybe added the rule number bits (I *know* there are going to be people who'd just die without it) then I can't see why you'd need ipfw. I imagine that would be a hell of a lot less work than bringing the features of ipfilter into ipfw. It'd also be one of those steps forward in compatibility between the various BSDs... Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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