From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 17 08:55:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA20112 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 08:55:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail12.digital.com (mail12.digital.com [192.208.46.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA20102 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 08:54:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cssmuc.frt.dec.com (cssmuc.frt.dec.com [16.186.96.161]) by mail12.digital.com (8.7.5/UNX 1.5/1.0/WV) with SMTP id LAA06174 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 11:49:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mofo.frt.dec.com by cssmuc.frt.dec.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/14Nov95-0232PM) id AA20325; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 17:49:46 +0200 Received: from mofo.frt.dec.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mofo.frt.dec.com (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA03941 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 17:47:24 GMT Message-Id: <199709171747.RAA03941@mofo.frt.dec.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message from Jimbo Bahooli of Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:00:02 EST. Reply-To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Subject: Re: lets get ipfilter as default Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 17:47:24 +0000 From: Gary Jennejohn Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jimbo Bahooli writes: > > Seeing ipfilter sitting in /usr/src/contrib, in a mostly > disfunctional state, I find it irritating. Why not replace ipfw with it, > I can find no advantage that ipfw has, other then being old and > traditional. > It is clearly better, and if its not integrated because it doesnt > work, that is incorrect. When the first version came out with a freebsd > port, proff patched it all up and it worked great. His patches may still > be rotting in incoming on ftp.freebsd.org. I mean 3.0 is going to have > SMP, why not give it a modern firewall program. > I suspect that none of the committers feel responsible for it since the developer himself has commit privileges. --- Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com (home) garyj@muc.de (play) gj@freebsd.org