From owner-freebsd-net Tue May 1 10:45:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from rgmail.regenstrief.org (rgmail.regenstrief.org [134.68.31.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 786DE37B422 for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 10:45:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org) Received: from aurora.regenstrief.org (ngigw0.wishard.edu [134.68.32.99] (may be forged)) by rgmail.regenstrief.org (8.11.0/8.8.7) with ESMTP id f41HoOX26159; Tue, 1 May 2001 12:50:25 -0500 Message-ID: <3AEEF62D.8E5D74D8@aurora.regenstrief.org> Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 17:45:17 +0000 From: Gunther Schadow Organization: Regenstrief Institute for Health Care X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: itojun@iijlab.net Cc: snap-users@kame.net, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, ipfilter@coombs.anu.edu.au, altq@csl.sony.co.jp Subject: Re: [altq 806] The future of ALTQ, IPsec & IPFILTER playing together ... References: <2082.988737577@itojun.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org itojun@iijlab.net wrote: > > >If we keep the filter matching rules separate in IPFILTER, > >IPSEC and ALTQ for much longer, this is only duplicating > >the maintenance work and will prevent these three great > >packages to work together happily. > > please be aware that, all *BSD projects are using different > packet filter/NAT code, so unifying packet classifier is a > big big job. try looking at amount of #ifdefs in ipfilter, altq > and kame ipsec code. Yes, this makes your lives very difficult, I understand. However, I also understand that you kind of prefer working with IPFILTER because IPFILTER is available for all *BSDs regardless of what other filtering stuff is also available for those. Therefore, I have migrated to IPFILTER and I have encouraged others to do the same so that you guys can concentrate on IPFILTER and don't have to bother with IPFW etc. thanks, -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow@regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistent Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message