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Date:      Sun, 20 Jul 2014 17:38:23 +0200
From:      Franco Fichtner <franco@lastsummer.de>
To:        "Mike." <the.lists@mgm51.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Future of pf / firewall in FreeBSD ? - does it have one ?
Message-ID:  <788274E2-7D66-45D9-89F6-81E8C2615D14@lastsummer.de>
In-Reply-To: <201407200939020335.0017641F@smtp.24cl.home>
References:  <53C706C9.6090506@com.jkkn.dk> <6326AB9D-C19A-434B-9681-380486C037E2@lastsummer.de> <53CB4736.90809@bluerosetech.com> <201407200939020335.0017641F@smtp.24cl.home>

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On 20 Jul 2014, at 15:39, Mike. <the.lists@mgm51.com> wrote:

> imho, the root problem here is that an effort to implement a single
> feature improvement (multi-threading) has caused the FreeBSD version
> of pf to apparently reach a near-unmaintainable position in the
> FreeBSD community because improvements from OpenBSD can no longer be
> ported over easily.   FreeBSD's pf has been put in a virtual
> isolation chamber due to the multi-threaded enhancement.
> 
> Was it worth it?

Yes.  This happened *three times* in BSD land now.  How much more
proof does it take to make that clear?

FWIW, I'm still volunteering, but I think the direction this
discussion is going is that there is no clear direction, which makes
this a tad less effective than it could be.  ;)


Cheers,
Franco



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