Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 02:35:10 -0700 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl> Cc: ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: ipfw behaviour with non IPv4 packets Message-ID: <20020725023510.A96102@iguana.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <20020725090636.GA39394@stack.nl>; from marcolz@stack.nl on Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 11:06:36AM %2B0200 References: <20020725001652.A94913@iguana.icir.org> <20020725090636.GA39394@stack.nl>
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 11:06:36AM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: > > I am a bit uncertain on what is the best path, but i believe a > > reasonable one is to assume > > > > "ip" = "any" --> any IP packet (v4 or v6) > > > > and similarly > > > > "proto" --> any packet of protocol "proto" over IP (v4 or v6) > > > > Comments ? > > Wouldn't that break backward compatibility with IPFW1 ? on one hand, yes. on the other hand, ipfw1 is not supposed to see anything else but ipv4 packets in my view this gives us a reasonable amount of backward compatibility, and we can even provide switches (sysctl i would say) to achieve even stricter ipfw1 compatibility. in any case, i do not care too much -- i have no strong interest in v6 so either way is fine with me. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message
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