Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:31:06 -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: <20041018043106.57778.qmail@web53907.mail.yahoo.com>
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it was said by Max Laier on 17.10.04: >There are some FreeBSD specific things that need improvement and clean >up. This is the first task that I will work on in 6-CURRENT starting >from now. > >Most prominently this includes the interface handling. There are some >open problems to be addressed, such as the inability to recognize >renamed interfaces as well as problems around 6to4. Does this include improvements in bridging? I saw your comments in a reply to this list 15.10.04. on this issue that vast improvements to FBSD's bridging support are needed to enable use of all of pf's features. While I am not using bridging now, I will need to set it up in six months or so. >Another big thing on the plate now, is a shared/exclusive lock semantic >for the ruleset evaluation. This will not only speed things up by quite >a bit, but will also resolve the requirement to run with mpsafenet=0 if >one wants to use user/group based filter rules. How badly does this impact now? This is a feature I have been looking forward to using. >All these projects will be merged into 5-STABLE once they have proven in HEAD. Will they be merged to 5-RELEASE, as well? I prefer not to track STABLE. Thanks for reading so far, please let me know your thoughts, concerns and questions. You're welcome. And thank you for your efforts in bring pf over from OpenBSD! One final question: Considering the inevitable loss of sync with the OBSD version, is separate FreeBSD-centric documentation planned? I ask because currently all docs are done by OBSD people, as far as I can tell. (I'd be willing to try my hand at this if someone doesn't mind my asking a lot of questions.) Thanks again, Stheg _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com
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