Kern/73129 and 5.3-STABLE

[Andre Oppermann]

"David G. Andersen" wrote:
> 
> The last messages I saw in the archives about kern/73129 indicated
> that it was going to be fixed "shortly"
> 
> (73129 is the "IPFW misbehavior in RELENG_5 thread" -- it's no longer
> possible to use ipfw fwd to perform policy routing).
> 
> This bug is on my critical path for getting my network entirely swapped
> over to 5.3 (b/c it breaks transparent proxying and other nifty games).
> Could I beg Andre or someone to commit a fix that restores the old
> behavior?
> 
> (Barring that, has anyone patched it in their own system, and if so,
> would you mind sending me the patch?  I dislike running custom kernel
> code on these machines, but I'm happy to do so to get things working. :)

Sorry, it'll be fixed in 5.4-RELEASE.  I have made up my mind how to
fix it the most correct way.

-- 
Andre