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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.



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