Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 17:41:47 +0400 From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> To: Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Cc: "Mike." <the.lists@mgm51.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Future of pf / firewall in FreeBSD ? - does it have one ? Message-ID: <20140731134147.GH2402@glebius.int.ru> In-Reply-To: <53DA304E.6020105@herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <53C706C9.6090506@com.jkkn.dk> <6326AB9D-C19A-434B-9681-380486C037E2@lastsummer.de> <53CB4736.90809@bluerosetech.com> <201407200939020335.0017641F@smtp.24cl.home> <788274E2-7D66-45D9-89F6-81E8C2615D14@lastsummer.de> <201407201230590265.00B479C4@smtp.24cl.home> <20140729103512.GC89995@FreeBSD.org> <53DA304E.6020105@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:02:22PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: D> Without diminishing your efforts so far, what do you think about D> pitching all efforts into IPFW to combine effort and reduce overhead of D> maintaining separate firewalls in the core? Is there an advantage to D> having our own pf? Is there any disadvantage keeping it? It is a plugin. It is optional and loadable. I removed most additions to the network stack that live outside netpfil/pf. Some people like it and use it. It is also the only tool to configure ALTQ now. -- Totus tuus, Glebius.
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