Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 04:04:08 -0000 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: pf4freebsd@freelists.org Cc: Ryan Verner <xfesty@computeraddictions.com.au> Subject: [pf4freebsd] Re: Maturity of this port? Message-ID: <200405250756.55875.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <40B2DAD4.2040005@computeraddictions.com.au> References: <40B2DAD4.2040005@computeraddictions.com.au>
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--Boundary-02=_nAusAcwXlEdSxBy Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 25 May 2004 07:34, Ryan Verner wrote: > Honestly - how mature is this port? Is it recommended for production > use? How feature rich and stable is it compared to the OpenBSD offering > - any known bugs? Is this going to be actively maintained for the > forseeable future? Okay, I'll try to address these fairly general questions: 1) As you might have seen (I should really update the homepage) the port is= =20 now part of the FreeBSD source tree. 2) FreeBSD 5.x is -CURRENT and as such not recommend for production use=20 per-se. However, if you find FreeBSD-5.x reasonably stable in your=20 environment pf will not be the show-stopper. I use 5.x on all my boxes and = am=20 satisfied, even tracking -CURRENT (with a delay of a week or so) is good fo= r=20 most application I think. 3) FreeBSD-Current has the same feature-set as OpenBSD 3.4. Everything shou= ld=20 work as known from OpenBSD. ALTQ is not part of FreeBSD (yet). One major=20 problem with 3.4 however, is the lack of dynamic interface support. This=20 might cause problems with certain mpd setups (when tun0 is destroyed it mig= ht=20 trigger a panic when pf still has a reference to this interface). 4) An (experimental) import of OpenBSD 3.5 and ALTQ is available from:=20 http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/ I run it on two router, my laptop and my= =20 desktop/development machine without problems, but am still waiting for more= =20 feedback from other list-users. I can only encourage you to give it a spin,= I=20 am very confident that this will match your needs. 5) Daniel Hartmeier accepted a FreeBSD commit-bit to maintain the port on=20 =46reeBSD in addition to myself. We will try to stay in sync with OpenBSD=20 stable and will very likely import more reliability fixes from OpenBSD=20 current than OpenBSD MFC's to its stable branch (as the policy for MFC'ing = is=20 very strict over there). Summary: If you need ALTQ, we don't have a stable solution yet, but you are invited = to=20 test the patches (which are very close to stable already). If you do not ne= ed=20 ALTQ you can install FreeBSD-current and have OpenBSD 3.4-STABLE pf. =2D-=20 Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet --Boundary-02=_nAusAcwXlEdSxBy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBAsuAnXyyEoT62BG0RAhrJAJ4oilW8KUFqB7LhPFH2u5YDKCxKAACeMEku Pi5yjYy8rCT0WHxfDgT/BTo= =wwoA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_nAusAcwXlEdSxBy--
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