[patch] RFC: allow divert from layer 2 ipfw (e.g. bridge)

[Max Laier]

On Wednesday 26 July 2006 20:35, Julian Elischer wrote:
> This code is running on quite a few systems but in a very limited
> environment that may not test all possibilities..
>
> Does anyone have comments or suggestions as to changes that I might make
> for checkin into generic FreeBSD? It was originally written for 4.x but
> with 6.x in mind.
> It is now running on 6.1 and seems to be ok so far.
>
> Certainly I am interested in hearing from Robert and Luigi and I am
> particularly interested in
> what people think on how this will handle locking/SMP difficulies.

Instead of putting more special processing to every L2-entry point in the 
system, I'd prefer if we could finally get round to L2 pfil hooks.  That 
would make it much easier to add such functionality in a common hook function 
and use it everywhere.

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