Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 01:50:05 +1000 (EST) From: darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au To: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Cc: julian@whistle.com, julian@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_fw.c Message-ID: <9804222327.AA01355@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au.> In-Reply-To: <19980422155133.57092@follo.net> from "Eivind Eklund" at Apr 22, 98 03:51:33 pm
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In some email I received from Eivind Eklund, sie wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 04:31:13PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > Eivind Eklund wrote: > > > This still doesn't solve the problems with IPFW (foremost, that > > > extending the structure blow the userland interface). > > > > why? > > if you recompile it with a new structure... > > That's what I'm saying - it blow the userland interface. It means > that anything using IPFW has to track the kernel version exactly. There are numerous programs like this already - ps, netstat, top, etc. I'd say "deal with it". > > I agree on the new interface, but the limit on the structure size > > was that each file rule had to fit into an mbuf. see NetBSD's pfil(9) for a starting point. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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