Re: ipfw deprecation

[Scott Ullrich <geekgod@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 12:51:26AM +0200, Andreas Hauser wrote:
>
> > > I would like to deprecate ipfw (and dummynet, because it needs ipfw) 
> > > for the next release and remove it in 1.7.
> >
> > Can you please show that pf is as fast as ipfw?
>
>
> I don't care about the speed of ipfw as long as it adds another set of
> hooks all over the place and abuses the mbuf interface. If someone is
> working on porting the pfil'ed version, that removes at least the first
> problem and reduces the second. Otherwise I frankly don't care.
>
> Joerg


Guys, has everyone failed to see that someone has already submitted a 
PFIL-ized IPFW2?   I don't see why everyone is making such a huge fuss 
over this when someone is already taking the time to do the work.