Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 14:22:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ipfw Makefile ipfw2.c src/sys/netinet ip_dummynet.c ip_fw.h ip_fw2.c src/sys/conf files src/lib/libalias alias_db.c Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020629142211.30000T-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20020629111203.B73787@iguana.icir.org>
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On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > For the kernel part i prefer to keep the new name (it is an entirely > different beast) and nuke the old file. > > For the userland part, but i am considering moving most of the > functionality into a library or something like that, which will accept a > string and parse&translate it into an appropriate data structure to be > passed to the setsockopt(), so that other programs (such as libalias) do > not have to redo the same. > > This means a split of the code in at least 2 files, so let me wait a bit > to decide on the naming issues. Having the ipfw management code in a library would be great -- make it much easier to write integrated firewall management tools. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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