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Date:      Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:13:15 +0200 (IST)
From:      Roman Shterenzon <roman@harmonic.co.il>
To:        Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Reminder:  Just 7 days till 4.2 code freeze!
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010301412210.17779-100000@shark.harmonic.co.il>
In-Reply-To: <20001025193645.O25237@speedy.gsinet>

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On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Gerhard Sittig wrote:

> PR 20202 (ipf invoked from rc.network) would be a good candidate
> for an MFC.  I understand quite a number of FreeBSD users have
> ipf running (either instead of ipfw or even besides it).  This
> patch was committed in -CURRENT on October 6th and I haven't seen
> _any_ negative reaction but quite some demand for something like
> this in the release (and I raised the question quite a few times
> in public whether this extension still has something missing or
> does its good intensions in the wrong and maybe dangerous way, I
> could even have bothered or annoyed some of you).  I - speaking
> as the originator - feel this PR to be complete, correct and
> implemented cleanly.  Feel free to disagree, but unless I hear
> something different I will keep thinking I did it OK :) and
> others could estimate this feature being in the release.

I'd definetely would like to see this MFCed.
I use ipf.sh in /usr/local/etc/rc.d for that purposes, and it seems quite
strange for starting a system component.

--Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant
[ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ]



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