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Date:      Mon, 13 May 2002 12:47:43 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net if_ethersubr.c src/sys/netinet ip_dummynet.c ip_dummynet.h 
Message-ID:  <12788.1021286863@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 May 2002 03:46:03 PDT." <20020513034603.A30586@iguana.icir.org> 

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In message <20020513034603.A30586@iguana.icir.org>, Luigi Rizzo writes:
>On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 12:38:32PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> 
>> Isn't it about time we go to multiple chains of rules ?
>
>To some degree, yes.
>And the option i am mentioning seems to me the easiest way to get
>to this without breaking backward compatibility.
>People have complex rulesets based on the existing structure,
>and I'd rather not screwup their ruleset completely.

But couldn't you easily add a new rulechain for the ethernet
rules ?  That seems both clean and simple to me ?

Besides, if we want to clean up, 5.0 is the time to do it...

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