ipfilter(4) needs maintainer

Lev Serebryakov lev at FreeBSD.org
Mon Apr 15 10:15:41 UTC 2013


Hello, Mark.
You wrote 15 апреля 2013 г., 2:25:07:

>> Yes! This is the most clever thought in this thread. Why we need 3
>> firewalls? Two packet filters it's excess too. We have two packet filters:
>> one with excellent syntax and functionality but with outdated bandwidth
>> control mechanism (aka ALTQ); another - with nice traffic
>> shaper/prioritization (dummynet)/classification (diffused) but with
>> complicated implementation  in not trivial tasks. May be the next step
>> will be discussion about one packet filter in the system?..

MM> ... and as far as I can tell none of them is currently usable
MM> on an IPv6-only FreeBSD (like protecting a host with sshguard),
MM> none of them supports stateful NAT64, nor IPv6 prefix translation :(
 IPv6 prefix translation?! AGAIN!? FML. I've thought, that IPv6 will
render all that NAT nightmare to void. I hope, IPv6 prefix translation
will not be possible never ever!

-- 
// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org>



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