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On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Doug Rabson wrote:

> On 19 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> 
> > "Brian F. Feldman" <green@unixhelp.org> writes:
> > > It might be worth (discussion of) making ipfilter the firewall of
> > > choice for 4.0. There would of course be rule conversion
> > > scripts/programs (ipfw->ipf(5)), and ipfilter would be converted to
> > > a KLD, cruft removed (I'm going to work on these), and ipfilter KLD
> > > support (currently options IPFILTER_LKM) made a non-option. It seems
> > > that our pretty proprietary ipfw is no longer a good idea.
> > 
> > If ipfilter can to everything ipfw can (judging from ipf(5), it can)
> > and you even manage to keep an ipfw(8) command around so those who
> > want kan keep using the old syntax still can, then I for one have no
> > objections.
> > 
> > Rewriting ipfw rules to ipfilter rules on the fly should be trivial; a
> > simple Perl script should be sufficient.
> 
> Does ipfilter support divert sockets?

It still needs:
	divert sockets
	Luigi's stuff (dummynet and bridging)
	my stuff

> 
> --
> Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
> Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037
> 
> 
> 

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