Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:07:10 -0700 (PDT) From: stheg olloydson <stheg_olloydson@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Plans for 6-CURRENT and 5-STABLE Message-ID: <20041018170711.51626.qmail@web53910.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200410181353.24464.max@love2party.net>
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--- Max Laier <max@love2party.net> wrote: >No. Bridgeing is a completely different story. I'd welcome an import >of if_bridge from Net/OpenBSD, but I will not have time to persue this. >There was an effort to do so, but - unfortunately - I lost track of it. >People interested should find it in the -current or -net archives. This is what I thought. Unfortunately, doing anything about this is beyond my skill level by a goodly margin. >Largely depends on your workload, hardware and so forth. If you have >- for example - a fairly heavy loaded MySQL on a 4way Xeon box, you'd >want to run with mpsafenet=1 (and hence avoid using user/group rules). >On an UP box it should not matter. I have some of each, so we will see :). >There is no such thing as 5-RELEASE. RELENG_5_3 (which you might be >confusing here) is solely for merging security fixes. All other >changes go to RELENG_5 (aka 5-STABLE) and become part of the *next* >release. I should have said RELENG_5_>3. I know some thing, in general, not specifically pf-related, are being held back until 6.0. I just wanted to be sure these weren't included with those. >The firewall chapter of the Handbook is being revised to give some >information about PF as well. This will link to the OpenBSD PF-FAQ - an >extra ordinary piece of documentation - for now. Depending on "how bad" >we diverge from OpenBSD we will either maintain our own version of the >FAQ or (more likely) describe the "delta" between Open- and FreeBSD's >PF in the handbook's firewall chapter and continue to reference the >FAQ. Exactly my thoughts and opinions! > -- > /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org > \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 > X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet > / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News Thanks for your quick response. Too bad about bridging. I know that's outside your realm. In the worst case, though, I would run OpenBSD on those machines and even that may not be necessary, so really the problem is minimal. Best Regards, Stheg __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Messenger - Communicate in real time. Download now. http://messenger.yahoo.com
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