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Date:      Tue, 23 Nov 2004 02:28:15 +0100
From:      Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
To:        freebsd-pf@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pf on FreeBSD 4,5,6,etc ;)
Message-ID:  <200411230228.21316.max@love2party.net>
In-Reply-To: <1101172253.28304.44.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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On Tuesday 23 November 2004 02:10, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
> Howdy there,
>
> I'm slightly curious about running packet filter on FreeBSD
> 4.10-RELEASE.
>
> Now, before I get flamed about just upgrading to 5.3-STABLE, let me just
> say that, that won't be happening until the uniprocessor performance
> improves (but that's another can 'o' beans)
>
> Anyways, I'm developing an application for my university (Texas A&M),
> and I can support packet filter on NetBSD-current, and OpenBSD 3.5,6,
> but I'm a bigger fan of FreeBSD, not to mention, the university runs
> it's main firewalls on Drawbridge (http://drawbridge.tamu.edu) on
> FreeBSD 4.xx-STABLE.
>
> It'd be much easier to convince them to switch the internal bridges from
> slackware to FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE than FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE ;)
>
> Can it be done, or am I barking up the wrong tree?

There is pf in KAME and it should be able to get it out of the KAME snapsho=
ts.=20
I, myself, don't use 4.x and rather work on improving 5/6 ...

It can be done. KAME should be a good starting point. I'd be happy to see=20
it. ... BUT I won't do it.

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