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Date:      Thu, 26 Feb 2004 21:56:40 +1100
From:      Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/pf/net if_pflog.c if_pflog.h if_pfsync.c if_pfsync.h pf.c pf_ioctl.c pf_norm.c pf_osfp.c pf_table.c pfvar.h src/sys/contrib/pf/netinet in4_cksum.c
Message-ID:  <20040226105640.GA30144@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
In-Reply-To: <20040226015016.B23674@xorpc.icir.org>
References:  <200402260234.i1Q2YDx1014240@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040226060126.GA70201@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20040226080517.GA29763@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20040226015016.B23674@xorpc.icir.org>

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On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 01:50:16AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> for what matters, i have posted to -net patches some time ago to extend
> ipfw2 to deal with ipv6 packets (thus effectively replacing ipfw6).
> No feedback in 6 weeks, to me this looks like lack of interest.
> 
> > problem of having too many firewalls. What I'd like to see is ipfw,
> > ipfilter and ip6fw implemented in terms of the pf kernel code, then
> 
> what is the motivation for that ? Features ?

Personal taste and features. But now that I think about it, I don't
mind terribly much whether the kernel is ipfw2 or pf, so long as I
get my features and syntactic sugar, and ideally there be only one
firewall interface to the kernel. I don't want to start a bikeshed
on which is better, and I don't mean to belittle your work on ipfw2
(or Darren's work on IPFilter).


Tim



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