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From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To: Nicholas Esborn <nick@netdot.net>
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On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Nicholas Esborn wrote:

> Sadly, most of the discussion I've seen here about pf on FreeBSD is
> basically "Why would we need another packet filter?"
>
> -nick

You misheard the question.  It's really:
"Why should I spend time importing PF for Nick when I have other things to
work on?"

If you take the time to create a patchset which allows PF to work on
FreeBSD, there's a much greater chance that PF could end up in FreeBSD.
(Assuming that the changes are structured in a way such that future
imports of PF would not be an overly complicated matter.)

Mike "Silby" Silbersack

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