+ implement "limit" rules, which permit to limit the number of sessions
between certain host pairs (according to masks). These are a special
type of stateful rules, which might be of interest in some cases.
See the ipfw manpage for details.
+ merge the list pointers and ipfw rule descriptors in the kernel, so
the code is smaller, faster and more readable. This patch basically
consists in replacing "foo->rule->bar" with "rule->bar" all over
the place.
I have been willing to do this for ages!
MFC after: 1 week
now you can dynamically create rate-limited queues for different
flows using masks on dst/src IP, port and protocols.
Read the ipfw(8) manpage for details and examples.
Restructure the internals of the traffic shaper to use heaps,
so that it manages efficiently large number of queues.
Fix a bug which was present in the previous versions which could
cause, under certain unfrequent conditions, to send out very large
bursts of traffic.
All in all, this new code is much cleaner than the previous one and
should also perform better.
Work supported by Akamba Corp.
is an application space macro and the applications are supposed to be free
to use it as they please (but cannot). This is consistant with the other
BSD's who made this change quite some time ago. More commits to come.
pr_input() routines prototype is also changed to support IPSEC and IPV6
chained protocol headers.
Reviewed by: freebsd-arch, cvs-committers
Obtained from: KAME project
+ plug an mbuf leak when dummynet used with bridging
+ make prototype of dummynet_io consistent with usage
+ code cleanup so that now bandwidth regulation is precise to the
bit/s and not to (8*HZ) bit/s as before.
- unifdef -DCOMPAT_IPFW (this was on by default already)
- remove traces of in-kernel ip_nat package, it was never committed.
- Make IPFW and DUMMYNET initialize themselves rather than depend on
compiled-in hooks in ip_init(). This means they initialize the same
way both in-kernel and as kld modules. (IPFW initializes now :-)
