Thank you to those that have expressed interest in maintaining IP Filter.. My thoughts are, could we consider putting a option in the kernel config, and leaving it off by default for GENERIC? I think this is a acceptable compromise, considering some people wish for it to be removed.
Sam Fourman Jr. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Cy Schubert <cy.schub...@komquats.com>wrote: > In message <18df99b0-6e66-4906-a233-7778451b8...@felyko.com>, Rui Paulo > writes: > > 2013/04/15 9:55、Cy Schubert <cy.schub...@komquats.com> のメッセージ: > > > > > I've been planning on taking on IP Filter for quite some time. > > > Unfortunately I've left my src commit bit lapse (my ports commit bit is > > > alive and well though) thus I'm looking for a mentor. In addition I'm > > > working on an ACER WMI/ACPI kld. One mentor would be preferred but two > > > would be fine too. > > > > What are your plans regarding ipfilter? I remain unconvinced that it > should b > > e in the base system. Perhaps you can work on it as a port? > > The initial plan was to import IP Filter 5.1.2 into HEAD. darrenr@ hadn't > done much with IPF while employed with Sun. Since then there has been some > development that is long overdue for HEAD. > > I'm not sure if I'd MFC it into 9 or not. > > I did consider a port but given it would has to touch bits and pieces of > the source tree (/usr/src), a port would be messy and the decision was made > to work on importing it into base. > > > > > Why do you want to work on something that people have been trying to > remove s > > ince 2005? > > I and others have been using it in FreeBSD for over decade. For the longest > of time we'd use a common set of rules across a FreeBSD and Solaris farm > (using ipfmeta, makefiles, rsync, rdist, and a local CVS repo). > Interoperability with other systems which use IP Filter is a plus. If > there's a maintainer, it only makes FreeBSD richer. Losing IP Filter would > be a loss. > > > -- > Cheers, > Cy Schubert <cy.schub...@komquats.com> > FreeBSD UNIX: <c...@freebsd.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > -- Sam Fourman Jr. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
