From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 24 03:00:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA08777 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 03:00:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA08715 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 03:00:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id KAA20834; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 10:16:38 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199804240816.KAA20834@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Bandwidth throttling etc. To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 10:16:37 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: julian@whistle.com, kjc@csl.sony.co.jp, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=" at Apr 24, 98 10:35:56 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Luigi Rizzo writes: > > right. as a matter of fact, the ipfw "rules" are really a program > > so i wonder if it wouldn't be better to define a simple language > > (bytecode ?) such that /sbin/ipfw compiles a "program" into bytecode > > that is passed to the kernel ... > > Just a thought: BPF... right... had the same thing in mind. But have no idea on how this is implemented. luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message