cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/pf/net if_pflog.c if_pflog.h if_pfsync.c if_pfsync.h pf.c pf_ioctl.c pf_norm.c pf_osfp.c pf_table.c pfvar.h src/sys/contrib/pf/netinet in4_cksum.c

[Sam Leffler]

On Friday 27 February 2004 12:28 am, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Sam Leffler <sam at errno.com> writes:
> > I made two attempts to eliminate all the ipfw-, dummmynet-, and
> > bridge-specific code in the ip protocols but never got stuff to the
> > point where I was willing to commit it.  My main motivation for doing
> > this was to eliminate much of the incestuous behaviour so that you
> > could reason about locking requirements but there were other benefits
> > (e.g. I was also trying to make the ip code more "firewall agnostic").
>
> The ideal solution would be to convert the entire networking stack to
> netgraph nodes; we could then insert filter nodes at any point in the
> graph.

I consider netgraph a fine prototyping system.  I think that using it for this 
purpose would be a mistake.

	Sam