From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jun 30 12:27:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA08613 for stable-outgoing; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 12:27:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com (critter.cdrom.com [204.216.27.38]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA08606; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 12:27:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA05310; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 12:26:57 -0700 (PDT) To: Randy Terbush cc: Kent Hamilton , current@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPFW Wish List Item In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 30 Jun 1996 13:36:12 CDT." <199606301836.NAA16141@sierra.zyzzyva.com> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 12:26:56 -0700 Message-ID: <5308.836162816@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199606301836.NAA16141@sierra.zyzzyva.com>, Randy Terbush writes: > >Not to belittle the work that Poul and others have put into IPFW, >I can't help but ask, "Why reinvent the wheel?" > >Darren Reed has done a great job pulling together ip_filter. As near >as I can tell it offers every feature that IPFW does as well as NAT and >many other features that are being requested for addition to IPFW. > >Again, my comments are not intended to take away from the effort that >has been put into IPFW. It just seems that there is another option >available that could only be made better by making it the standard >packet filter for FreeBSD. It already sports many of the features >that are being requested for addition to IPFW. At the time there were various obstacles for that. I hope that somebody soon imports ipfilter too. I would like to see us having two implementations: ipfw for the lightweight stuff ipfilter for the heavy stuff. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.