Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:28:04 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> Cc: cvs-src@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: <xzpptc10vvv.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <565913D0-68E2-11D8-AE91-000A95AD0668@errno.com> (Sam Leffler's message of "Thu, 26 Feb 2004 21:03:52 -0800") References: <200402260234.i1Q2YDx1014240@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040226060126.GA70201@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20040226080517.GA29763@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20040226015016.B23674@xorpc.icir.org> <403DC956.8EA364B2@freebsd.org> <20040226071123.A31631@xorpc.icir.org> <565913D0-68E2-11D8-AE91-000A95AD0668@errno.com>
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Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> writes: > I made two attempts to eliminate all the ipfw-, dummmynet-, and > bridge-specific code in the ip protocols but never got stuff to the > point where I was willing to commit it. My main motivation for doing > this was to eliminate much of the incestuous behaviour so that you > could reason about locking requirements but there were other benefits > (e.g. I was also trying to make the ip code more "firewall agnostic"). The ideal solution would be to convert the entire networking stack to netgraph nodes; we could then insert filter nodes at any point in the graph. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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