On 19 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > "Brian F. Feldman" <gr...@unixhelp.org> writes: > > It might be worth (discussion of) making ipfilter the firewall of > > choice for 4.0. There would of course be rule conversion > > scripts/programs (ipfw->ipf(5)), and ipfilter would be converted to > > a KLD, cruft removed (I'm going to work on these), and ipfilter KLD > > support (currently options IPFILTER_LKM) made a non-option. It seems > > that our pretty proprietary ipfw is no longer a good idea. > > If ipfilter can to everything ipfw can (judging from ipf(5), it can) > and you even manage to keep an ipfw(8) command around so those who > want kan keep using the old syntax still can, then I for one have no > objections. > > Rewriting ipfw rules to ipfilter rules on the fly should be trivial; a > simple Perl script should be sufficient.
Does ipfilter support divert sockets? -- Doug Rabson Mail: d...@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
