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Date:      Wed, 21 Aug 2002 12:43:54 -0500
From:      "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
To:        Sergey Mokryshev <mokr@mokr.net>
Cc:        "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>, cjclark@alum.mit.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: question about ipl.ko
Message-ID:  <20020821174354.GA42880@leviathan.inethouston.net>
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> There are a few files with PFIL_HOOKS-dependant #ifdefs, but it is
> strongly
> tied with the code.
> 
> /sys/net/bridge.c
> /sys/netinet/ip_input.c
> /sys/netinet/ip_output.c
> /sys/netinet6/ip6_forward.c
> /sys/netinet6/ip6_input.c
> /sys/netinet6/ip6_output.c
> 
> Darren Reed has some pieces of code on his site, but I
> did not read it.
> ftp://coombs.anu.edu.au/pub/net/ip-filter/pfil-1.26.tar.gz
> 
> According to pfil(9) manual
> -----------
> BUGS
>      The current pfil implementation will need changes to suit a
> threaded ker-
>      nel model.
> -----------
> 
> May be this is the reason not to make it default.

I'm sure there is probably some reason, but if we can make it a kld, 
there shouldn't be a reason we can't make ipl.ko depend on it.  I do 
not do much coding so I don't know if its even possible to do it as a 
kld

-- 
David W. Chapman Jr.
dwcjr@inethouston.net	Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net>
dwcjr@freebsd.org	FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org>

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