ipfw2 for dragonflybsd

Sepherosa Ziehau sepherosa at gmail.com
Mon Nov 17 14:45:57 PST 2014


For static rules, ipfw2 in the base is already lockless MPSAFE.  I
want to change the states lockless MPSAFE (it was not doable back to
the time I made ipfw2 static rules lockless MPSAFE; but now since we
dispatch udp outputs to the proper netisr, it is doable).

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Zachary Crownover
<zachary.crownover at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would say follow in the steps that were taken for the pf code that was
> touched recently for SMP support and prevention of locking for you
> application of the same into ipfw.
>
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 10:04 PM, bycn82 <bycn82 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi ,
>> I am re-writing the ipfw for dragonflybsd. and once I cleanup the code, I
>> will continue port some useful features like NAT and policy routing.( NAT
>> will be the next one)
>>
>> And here is a simple wiki page for it,
>> http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/ipfw2/
>>
>> any comment? Sure I need people's help in testing of it. thanks in
>> advanced.
>>
>> Regards,
>> bycn82
>
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>
> --
> Sincerely,
>
> Zachary Crownover



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