Summer of Code 2005: Improve Libalias

[Mike Jakubik]

On Tue, September 6, 2005 10:13 am, Paolo Pisati said:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:06:57PM +0400, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
>
>> during your work with libalias have you found any bugs or buglets, or a
>> rough places, that should be considered to be merged to main FreeBSD CVS
>> tree as soon as possible, before next release?
>
> well, actually i didn't find any bugs in libalias that was not imputable
> to my work, but i found 2 bugs in other parts of FreeBSD:
>
>
> 1) kernel panic with ipfw as kld in 5.x and 6.x:
>
>
> kldload ipfw.ko ipfw show (the 65k rule will show up) ipfw add 100 allow
> all from any to any ipfw del 100 panic: kmem_malloc: entry not found or
> misaligned
>
> tested on qemu only
>
> 2) natd crash receiving a SIGHUP
>
>
> launch natd this way (as root):
>
> /sbin/natd -n <if> -v
>
>
> where if is your nic
>
> then
>
> sudo killall -HUP natd
>
> natd will core dump
>
> i didn't have time to investigate any further, but if i'm not the only one
> to see them, i can take a look...

And what is the point of all of this when we have OpenBSD's PF? ipfw and
libalias is dead.