Re: ipfilter(4) needs maintainer

From: Aleksandr A Babaylov <._at_babolo.ru>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:06:20 +0400
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:45:57AM +0200, David Demelier wrote:
> 2013/4/14 Gary Palmer <gpalmer_at_freebsd.org>:
> > Do we honestly need three packet filters?
> 
> No, for me only one should be present. I completely understand that
> some users still use IPFilter and IPFW but why providing three packet
> filters?
> 
> The answer should be: use one and document only one. If at the
> beginning we started documenting only one all users should have used
> the only one present. Now we really need to remove the ancestral
> ipfilter and tell people switching to pf(4).
IPFW.
It is more logical and easy to use in complex context.

> Everything in life change, if we need to maintain all code from the
> past we will have a lot of compat code that pollute the full source
> tree and we will never improve the code just because of old bits
Received on Fri Apr 19 2013 - 13:46:06 UTC

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