Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 17:47:24 +0000 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@mofo.frt.dec.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lets get ipfilter as default Message-ID: <199709171747.RAA03941@mofo.frt.dec.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Jimbo Bahooli <griffin@blackhole.iceworld.org> of Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:00:02 EST.
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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
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