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From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
To: spork <spork@super-g.com>
Cc: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>,
	Thomas Stromberg <tstromberg@rtci.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG,
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Subject: Re: ipfilter no longer in -CURRENT, whats the direction? (off to ipfw?)
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On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 01:59:55PM -0500, spork wrote:
> I noticed that ipfilter is still gone...  Was there any resolution here,
> or is ipfilter gone for good?
> 
> All other concerns/features aside, I find the stateful inspection stuff
> much easier to setup than the ipfw filtering...  I only touch my firewall
> once in a blue moon, and just about everything except for streaming
> quicktime "just works".  It would be a shame to see such a useful piece of
> software go away.

I am in the process of getting it in again. Due to the CVS meister being
swamped at this moment things are a bit delayd.

Plan is to revive it in the same way it wa sbefore with the addition
of a KLD. 

-Guido


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