Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 09:03:28 -0500 From: Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org> To: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [FreeBSD 11 Wishlist] Replacing an OpenBSD Firewall Message-ID: <E327BE58-5758-4A8C-809A-FDF221880C16@longcount.org> In-Reply-To: <1419995051.3716640.208176841.1676669A@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1419995051.3716640.208176841.1676669A@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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> On Dec 30, 2014, at 10:04 PM, Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >=20 > After finding today that some of my intermittent home network problems > are likely due to OpenBSD being unable to keep time* on my PC Engines > APU4 firewall I am attempting yet again to run FreeBSD in this role. >=20 > Here are my pain points that made me go with OpenBSD for so long: >=20 > 1) No IPSEC in GENERIC > 2) if_stf not having 6rd support (paging hrs@) > 3) pf issues: ipv6 checksums, fragments > 4) pf syntax (ok, this is really an "I wish...") >=20 > I noticed net/stf-6rd-kmod now has a patch for FreeBSD 10 so I grabbed > the diff and built an IPSEC kernel with this patch applied. I'm now > mostly up and running except for the fact that I have no idea how to > configure stf for 6rd. There don't seem to be any docs/examples > anywhere. Unfortunately the man page edits in the diff don't give me any > details. I'd love to see a simple example because I'm completely lost > right now. >=20 > In conclusion:=20 > - Let's get IPSEC into GENERIC or make it accessible for users via pkg. > It will need to receive the same treatment as GENERIC's freebsd-update > patches. > - Can we please get 6rd support in head? I understand these shims have > lost a lot of interest/momentum but native IPv6 isn't coming soon for > most people. > - Glad to see pf patches flowing in: ipv6, checksum, vnet, etc. Thanks > everyone! >=20 >=20 > I will say I'm completely baffled by one thing though: the concept of > having rtadvd in base, but no dhcpd in base. That doesn't make any sense > to me. Shouldn't rtadvd be moved to ports? >=20 >=20 >=20 > *For those curious, OpenBSD falls behind several seconds per minute and > sometimes jumps hundreds behind. It's not a hardware issue as FreeBSD > runs fine. Changing time counters in OpenBSD didn't work. This probably > started around the time I upgraded to OpenBSD 5.6, but I'm not sure. Mark Were you running openntpd ? Also did you apply the most recent firmware fo= r the apu ?=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"=
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