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Subject: ipfilterd (was Re: Meta-threads)
From: Barney Wolff <barney @ databus . com>
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 94 13:05 EDT
To: Paul Walmsley <ccshag @ sgi1 . phlab . missouri . edu>, firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM

> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 13:21:57 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Paul Walmsley <ccshag @
 sgi1 .
 phlab .
 missouri .
 edu>
> 
> Well, not really, but I'm curious to know if any other Un*x systems out 
> there support ipfilterd ... our IRIX systems do over here, and I'm 
> wondering whether it's an SVR4 feature or an IRIX feature.

I believe it's Irix/SunOS - UnixWare does not have it.  Of course,
the pure Streams architecture of the U/W TCP/IP stack would make it
fairly straightforward to add a filtering Streams module, or to use
the pseudo-net technique (see //research.att.com/dist/smb/pnet.ext.ps.Z).

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