On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 08:06:39PM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > pf(4) can do this. I have a diff with me but if I send it in the present > state, then Theo will catch my neck. :) > > I should be able to submit a diff soon. I need to modify it to meet the > high standards of OpenBSD... >
i'm sure that somebody told you about the reason to reject these patches: it does not belong into the kernel! write a userland proxy. like ftp-proxy, tftp-proxy, hoststated, ... how hard is it to understand? there are zillions of insane features in linux but we don't care - it is not the OpenBSD way of doing it. they do string operations like SIP parsing (which looks like HTTP) in the kernel. so what? reyk
