Dummynet/ipnat interaction breakage

[Jeremie Le Hen]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 12:05:11PM +0100, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> > Take a look at PRs 61685 and 76539. Hope that helps.
> 
> Well, I was aware of the first one (I'm doing shaping on my internal
> interface as a workaround), but not the second one.  The second one
> is very new and this could indeed be the same problem I encountered.
> 
> It seems that the import of IPFilter 3.4.35 in the middle of 2004 is
> the source of the problem because when I switch back to 3.4.31 on
> 4.11, everything works.
> 
> I Cc'ed andre@ since he had not took over 76539, maybe he's not aware
> of it.
> 
> Andre, what can you tell us about the drawbacks of the proposed patches ?
> I think there must be some as they would have been merged if this was
> not the case.
> 
> Are there any change to have this fixed in RELENG_4 ?  I know that no
> more releases are scheduled in this branch, but there is no obvious
> reason to let a bug live there IMHO.

4.1 is still broken.  I understand that RELENG_4 is at end of its life
but ipnat/dummynet interaction further breakage between 4.10 and 4.11
(due to IPFilter 3.4.35 import) is, IMHO, not acceptable for FreeBSD,
especially RELENG_4 which is a must in term of stability and release
engineering.  My workaround was to go back to RELENG_4_10 branch in
src/sys/contrib/ipfilter.

Given that *there are* patches in these PR, although we should admit
these are not examples of long term solution, is there any chance to
get this commited into RELENG_4 to assist this old good branch until
its funeral ?

Regards,
-- 
Jeremie Le Hen
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