you just don't get it. It is entirely useless. EVERYBODY understands that, except for you.
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 05:49:41PM +0100, Cedric Berger wrote: > Henning Brauer wrote: > > >Obviously, nobody of you has thought through the consequences of collecting > >the stats on each interface. > > > How do you know such a thing? > As I said, I've a patch that did that in the past, for 3.0 > or 3.1. So obviously I know something about the > consequences on the code. > > However, I'm not saying we need to do it. I don't know. > You're raising some good points. Yor example, 'pfctl -si' > would clearly need to take an extra argument, like 'pfctl -si fxp0' > > Yes, this will make the kernel a bit more complicated, > but also note that it will make the userland simpler. i.e, > "set loginterface" end friend could can go AWAY. > > We can surely have a good discussion about the plus > and minuses of doing that, but with sentenses like > "I do not want this bloat in pf", it is difficult to have > a healthy discussion. > > Personally, I like orthogonality. If loginterface is useless, > why not killing it? if loginterface is useful, why restricting > to one interface? > > I guess the question we need to know is the how ppl > use that feature, and for what. I've no hard feeling about > implementing that or not, but if ppl find it useful, I don't > think it's impossible to implement cleanly. > Cedric > > >
