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Date:      Fri, 18 Jun 1999 22:15:14 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Nicolai Petri <npp@distortion.dk>
To:        Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>
Cc:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Introduction
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906182211100.8557-100000@distortion.dk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906181343580.75966-100000@janus.syracuse.net>

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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.) 

Wich layer would it be logically to implement this in ?

Is a userland proxy the only way ?

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Nicolai Petri
WM-data BFC




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