From owner-freebsd-pf@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 11 10:37:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 359C216A4CE for ; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 10:37:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from xs4all.deze.org (deze.xs4all.nl [213.84.82.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0CA743D49 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 10:37:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from frank@deze.org) Received: by xs4all.deze.org (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2A351FDFA; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:37:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from corfu (corfu [192.168.1.2]) by xs4all.deze.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52F09FD96; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:37:21 +0200 (CEST) From: "Frank" To: "'Max Laier'" , Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:37:21 +0200 Organization: DeZe Message-ID: <9FAFEFB20AA5374391ED09FE09EE5885775C65@nlex003.nl.int.atosorigin.com> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <200410111214.14779.max@love2party.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on drawbridge.deze.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,NO_DNS_FOR_FROM autolearn=no version=2.64 Subject: RE: CARP in RELENG_4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: frank@deze.org List-Id: Technical discussion and general questions about packet filter (pf) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 10:37:33 -0000 Hi, The reason that I'm considering the backport is that I'm not yet convinced that RELENG_5 has the same level of stability as FreeBSD 4.x has. I understand of course that introducing this patch, might create an instability... But the patch itself is rather small, and not extrenely complex, so it might be worth a try. Regards, Frank -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-pf@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-pf@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Max Laier Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 12:14 To: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CARP in RELENG_4 On Sunday 10 October 2004 12:37, Frank wrote: > Hi, > > I'm thinking about using the CARP patchset > > http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/CARP/20040823-carp.RELENG_5.diff > > and porting it back to RELENG_4. > > Before I start doing that, I want to check first, if this is an > accomplishable goal. So, my question is, does anybody know a reason (eg. > major incompatibility beteen FreeBSD 4.x and FreeBSD 5.x) that makes this > task difficult or even impossible? Or can this be done easily enough???? You will certainly have some API gaps to fill. Some will be very obvious (as you will just hit undefined functions) some will be more disturbing as functions may act differently. All in all it should be doable. Yet with a certain amount of work. That said, I don't see the point. RELENG_4 is past now, hail to RELENG_5 :-) -- /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News