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Date:      Sat, 19 Jun 1999 14:02:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Brian F. Feldman" <green@unixhelp.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>, ugen@xonix.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org, luigi@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Firewalls (was Re: Introduction)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906191401020.3513-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
In-Reply-To: <xzpso7o8ayi.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On 19 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

> "Brian F. Feldman" <green@unixhelp.org> writes:
> > On 19 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > > Rewriting ipfw rules to ipfilter rules on the fly should be trivial; a
> > > simple Perl script should be sufficient.
> > Not quite as trivial as you think. ipfw and ipf are completely backwards when it comes
> > to rule order: in ipfw, the first rule matched takes effect; in ipf, the last rule matched
> > takes effect.
> 
> Just throw in 'quick' and ipfilter behaves just like ipfw.

I figured that out. Come to think of it, I rather like "quick" much better
than ipf's default way.

> 
> >                                                                    Note that Luigi's
> > extra ipfw functionality and my extra ipfw functionality _will_ be wanted in ipf
> > before everyone is necessarily willing to switch.
> 
> Divert sockets, dummynet and credential-based filtering would be
> sorely missed if they weren't ported to ipfilter.

Definitely. Working on ipfilter is probably better than reinventing the wheel
again.

> 
> DES
> -- 
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no
> 

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