Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 12:49:43 -0400 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> To: Bill Yuan <bycn82@gmail.com> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@freebsd.org>, "Alexander V. Chernikov" <melifaro@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Net <net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [CFT]: ipfw named tables / different tabletypes Message-ID: <CA%2BhQ2%2BjWJdRqG2kiuFE4CimvHwgN5cV6PMeW1ochAgwnOFmemA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAC%2BJH2yQsjLePvFQC=XkSTF8oD1hCn2EZxAZRHKZSyt3HsYSxQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <5379FE3C.6060501@FreeBSD.org> <20140521111002.GB62462@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <CAC%2BJH2yQsjLePvFQC=XkSTF8oD1hCn2EZxAZRHKZSyt3HsYSxQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Bill Yuan <bycn82@gmail.com> wrote: > 1. "each table can have it's own name", I like this idea. I am also > working on this kind of functions, But I am in different way. In my > opinion. the "name" or "type" of the table, all this are utility function > for the user. in the kernel space. I want to keep all the things the same > as before. and add a translate function in the user land commands, so that > means we need to find a space to keep the mapping of the name<->id or > type<->id, > this does not work, you'd have another database to keep in sync and on which you have races with modifications to the ipfw config. cheers luigi
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