Proposal regarding the RFC 3514 handling

Darren Reed darrenr at reed.wattle.id.au
Thu Apr 3 05:13:38 PST 2003


In some email I received from Peter Wemm, sie wrote:
[...]
> On the other hand, we have so much cruft in the ip input/output code paths
> (2 or 3 different packet filter hooks etc), this is tiny by comparison.

Now that April 1 is far behind, I'll mention that I've been looking
at ways to amalgamate the mechanisms used by ipfw/ipfilter to address
this problem.  Without being insulting, my 5 second grab on this is
that ipfw has grown like a tumour inside the ip stack with bits and
pieces hooked in here and there and everywhere (exageration.)  That
is to say I think should be and can be better than they are.

Cheers,
Darren


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