Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 11:27:40 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@unixhelp.org> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>, ugen@xonix.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org, luigi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Introduction Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906191126500.916-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906191558140.80685-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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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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>
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