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On 1/21/12 5:41 PM, Ermal Luçi wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Walt Elam <wrelam@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I would like to help with the development of the PF port for FreeBSD but am
>> not quite sure how to get involved. More specifically, I would like to help
>> get something ported over that accepts the new rule syntax since it becomes
>> increasingly harder to find documentation, help, and tutorials for the
>> older syntax.
>>
>> If anyone could point me in the right direction for getting involved, that
>> would be great.
>>
>>
> There is one catch.
> FreeBSD does not want to break compatibility of old syntax and that is why
> i did not port the latest version of pf(4).
> 
> What is there now makes it 'trivial' to go to the latest pf(4) version in
> Open but there needs to be a layer of translation
> for the old syntax to new syntax.
> 
> That is te only reason its not been done.
> 

While we're at it, are there any plans for being able to include files
to the main PF conf ?

Currently, we're emulating this using anchors, but plain includes would
be nicer.

The way I see it here, in our own environment, we'd have a first include
with our interface definitions, another with options and so on...