From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 26 15:48:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D33F37B4C5 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:48:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (ether.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.196]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9QMm7f55927; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:48:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20001026152439.A7690@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:48:55 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ipfw question. Cc: Bill Fumerola Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 26-Oct-00 David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 03:18:55PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: >> Ugh, no. Peter's forthcoming config(8) changes will allow you to >> specify kernel options to use when building modules (actually, it >> builds modules in the same environment as the kernel) to properly >> handle this. Just be patient until we have the right solution >> finished and in the tree. > > I disagree. Vaporware (example Son of Sysinstall) has kept us from > improving things until the fabled newstuff arrives. Code that is in his tree != vaporware (yes, I have seen an actual modified src tree with it in there) > Unless you have a strong commitment from Peter on a time frame, we need > to offer an easy way to control the functionality of the ipfw module. a) This is current. 5.0-release isn't next week, so we have time to get this done right. b) Any hacks we add now we have to then be backward compatibile with later on which increases the maintenance load. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message