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Date:      Tue, 03 Sep 2019 14:06:05 -0000
From:      "Kristof Provost" <kp@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Cy Schubert" <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>
Cc:        "Ed Schouten" <ed@nuxi.nl>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-projects@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r345760 - in head: contrib/pf sys/netpfil/pf sbin/pfctl
Message-ID:  <9E67836D-5E66-4E82-AB3F-F854AE008759@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <201904010728.x317SWXD076162@slippy.cwsent.com>
References:  <201904010728.x317SWXD076162@slippy.cwsent.com>

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On 1 Apr 2019, at 9:28, Cy Schubert wrote:
> In message <EFC99E7D-CE93-4168-B0A3-CD36113A652F@FreeBSD.org>, Kristof
> Provost
> writes:
>>
>>
>>> On 1 Apr 2019, at 08:39, Ed Schouten <ed@nuxi.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>> Op ma 1 apr. 2019 om 07:53 schreef Kristof Provost <kp@freebsd.org>:
>>>>  Users are advised to migrate to ipf.
>>>
>>> Has anyone considered importing netfilter/iptables?
>>>
>> Nftables, surely?
>> We wouldn’t want to import their outdated firewall.
>
> Does it support RFC 1149 and RFC 2549? None of our firewalls do. Then
> again, neither does our stack. How difficult would it be to support
> this?
>
I’ve done some investigating, and the current research indicates that 
while it is possible to filter  RFC 1149 and RFC 2549 it’s very hard 
to train the falcons, and it does make a bit of a mess when you drop 
packets.

Regards,
Kristof



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