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Date:      Sat, 26 Jul 2014 10:46:52 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Mark Felder <feld@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "Kristian K. Nielsen" <freebsd@com.jkkn.dk>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Future of pf / firewall in FreeBSD ? - does it have one ?
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The flow in both directions has to include:

* better locking / parallelism
* virtualised forwarding support (ie, vimage)

If he's happy to include some stubs for that, then sure. I think both
dfbsd and freebsd can use the same pf.



-a

On 26 July 2014 08:27, Mark Felder <feld@freebsd.org> wrote:
> We've already heard of Henning offering to help port a new pf but the olive branch has been extended even further. He responded to some comments of mine on twitter:
>
> @HenningBrauer: @rhymebyter @feldpos I offered help/advice to whomever seriously attempts to update pf in @dragonflybsd AND @freebsd.
>
> @HenningBrauer: @feldpos it takes someone in freebsd/netbsd/dragonfly to update their ancient pf versions, then code can flow bidirectional
>
> Technical hurdles aside, that sounds like the beginning of an OpenPf to me...
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