Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:30:59 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ipfilter(4) needs maintainer Message-ID: <861uadc6cc.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <CAAdA2WNoT7%2Bo8yP5180ZkSFKU6zERjdYzAPb5VkH3stE2qTYpA@mail.gmail.com> (Odhiambo Washington's message of "Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:48:36 %2B0300") References: <20130411201805.GD76816@FreeBSD.org> <7D8ACD5C-821D-4505-82E4-02267A7BA4F8@FreeBSD.org> <E2F803DD-1F3A-430E-957F-7AB1904CDF42@samsco.org> <96D56EAE-E797-429E-AEC9-42B19B048CCC@FreeBSD.org> <516AAD01.1090201@a1poweruser.com> <1D28D213-BB43-4538-A1D5-FC396A7025D5@samsco.org> <CAAdA2WNoT7%2Bo8yP5180ZkSFKU6zERjdYzAPb5VkH3stE2qTYpA@mail.gmail.com>
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Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> writes: > 2. PF is being felt to be part of FreeBSD, but it too lags far behind > OpenBSD implementation - almost like it's unmaintained. There has been > debates about this which were never concluded. Most of you will agree with > me on this. FreeBSD's version of pf is actively maintained by Gleb. IIUC, the reason why it lags behind OpenBSD is partly that OpenBSD keep making changes to the filter syntax which break existing rulesets, and partly that FreeBSD's and OpenBSD's network stacks and locking primitives are so different that we can't easily plug OpenBSD's code into our kernel without significant performance issues. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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