Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:51:17 +0200 From: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>, ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: ipfw behaviour with non IPv4 packets Message-ID: <20020725095117.GA48178@stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <20020725023510.A96102@iguana.icir.org> References: <20020725001652.A94913@iguana.icir.org> <20020725090636.GA39394@stack.nl> <20020725023510.A96102@iguana.icir.org>
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> > Wouldn't that break backward compatibility with IPFW1 ? > > on one hand, yes. > on the other hand, ipfw1 is not supposed to see > anything else but ipv4 packets > > in my view this gives us a reasonable amount of backward > compatibility, and we can even provide switches (sysctl > i would say) to achieve even stricter ipfw1 compatibility. That would be the nice way to do it. During a transition period you could have the strict compatibility as default. > > in any case, i do not care too much -- i have no strong > interest in v6 so either way is fine with me. I do. I welcome support for IPv6 in ipfw2 itself, instead of the separate ip6fw stuff, but a smooth transition would be nice. Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message
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