A project I'm looking to do in my spare time at Sun is to create a library that provides access to some of the more useful ioctls supported by IPFilter. The problem with relying on ioctls is that if the data structures passed through change then often everything needs to be recompiled.
I currently have no plans to rewrite the IPFilter tools to use this API, rather, the parts of the API that I'm designing now are where 3rd party people have said "we'd like to dow this with our applications." At some point it will be possible to write the tools to use it, but that isn't the priority here. For obvious reasons I won't be doing this work in FreeBSD but there are some paths for someone else at FreeBSD to: - import all of the code "as is" under src/dist/libnpf (CDDL'd) - someone else from FreeBSD writes it all from scratch - the front end gets written by someone else at FreeBSD but FreeBSD imports the ipfilter bits from opensolaris (CDDL allows this.) The "someone else" from FreeBSD will get a spec of some sort to code against. If they were prepared to help write and/or review the spec, even better. Additionally, I'd like to hear if anyone would be willing to at least do the backend work for both ipfw and pf on FreeBSD. I'll also be posting a similar email to the NetBSD lists, asking for input/thoughts there too. Darren _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
