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Date:      Sat, 29 Jun 2002 14:22:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ipfw Makefile ipfw2.c src/sys/netinet ip_dummynet.c ip_fw.h ip_fw2.c src/sys/conf files src/lib/libalias alias_db.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020629142211.30000T-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020629111203.B73787@iguana.icir.org>

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On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> For the kernel part i prefer to keep the new name (it is an entirely
> different beast) and nuke the old file. 
> 
> For the userland part, but i am considering moving most of the
> functionality into a library or something like that, which will accept a
> string and parse&translate it into an appropriate data structure to be
> passed to the setsockopt(), so that other programs (such as libalias) do
> not have to redo the same. 
> 
> This means a split of the code in at least 2 files, so let me wait a bit
> to decide on the naming issues. 

Having the ipfw management code in a library would be great -- make it
much easier to write integrated firewall management tools.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories


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