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Date:      Mon, 19 Aug 1996 07:36:08 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Cc:        imp@village.org (Warner Losh), jkh@time.cdrom.com, ugen@latte.worldbank.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ipfw vs ipfilter 
Message-ID:  <7036.840432968@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Aug 1996 07:50:05 %2B1000." <199608182150.OAA14811@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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>IP Filter has its own set of regression tests, which you can verify yourself
>and then against a test run, if you like.  Not to mention that this has
>helped find bugs.  Both rule parsing and rule processing are tested for
>correctness.  This is seen in neither ipfw or ipfwadm for FreeBSD/Linux.
>In a security concious world, how can you not want to be sure of something
>like this ?

Uhm, aren't people overlooking the obvious here:  We can have both,
and the user can choose.  That was my hope at least.

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