Re: New preview patch for ipfw to pfil_hooks conversion

From: Julian Elischer (julian_at_elischer.org)
Date: 06/23/04

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    Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:20:28 -0700 (PDT)
To: Ian FREISLICH <if@hetzner.co.za>

    On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Ian FREISLICH wrote:

    > Andre Oppermann wrote:
    > > Here is the next preview patch for the ipfw to pfil_hooks conversion:
    > >
    > > http://www.nrg4u.com/freebsd/ipfw-pfilhooks-and-more-20040621.diff
    > >
    > > This patch significantly cleans up ip_input.c and ip_output.c.
    >
    > That would be a very a nice thing, but it looks like this breaks
    > the patch that I submitted (kern/64240) which fixes the acknowledged
    > problem with 'ipfw tee' accepting packets instead of copying them
    > to the divert port and then processing the packet according to the
    > rest of the rule set.
    >
    > There have been about 5 PRs (most with patches) in the past years
    > which all claim to fix this problem indicating that here is a need
    > for a fix. We rely on the fix in kern/64240 to collect traffic
    > accounting information for billing and statistical purposes. There
    > hasn't been much interest from the committers in having a look at
    > this even though the work has already been done.
    >
    > Now that you're actively working on that part of the source, would
    > it be possible to take a look? I would also be happy to create a
    > new patch to fix this problem against ipfw with pfilhooks if that's
    > what it's going to take to get a fix committed.
    >
    > Ian
    >
    > --
    > Ian Freislich

    hmmm I guess the pathc should be pointed out to luigi or an ipfw
    person..
    it's probably not that you're being ignored it's probably that no-one
    who has his fingers in ipfw noticed it..

    julian

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