Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 11:30:04 +1000 (EST) From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au> To: npp@distortion.dk (Nicolai Petri) Cc: green@unixhelp.org, ru@ucb.crimea.ua, hackers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Introduction Message-ID: <199906190130.LAA11524@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906182211100.8557-100000@distortion.dk> from Nicolai Petri at "Jun 18, 99 10:15:14 pm"
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In some email I received from Nicolai Petri, sie wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > > Let's join our efforts in this area! > > > IPFW code is very ugly... > > > > Which is basically due to it being hacked on for years without a cleanup. > > Now's the time (between major versions) to do this, I think. How's this: > > let's organize a small group to bounce ideas off eachother, first of all > > (I'm forwarding this to hackers to perhaps elicit a response of more people.) > > We should get ideas on what people think is wrong with the current > > implementation, what new features should be added, and where we should > > rearchitect. > > What about support for protocol verification ?? (Example : Blocking of > malformed ftp commands.) Surely you jest... > Wich layer would it be logically to implement this in ? 5 and above. > Is a userland proxy the only way ? With a 100% reliability, yes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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