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Date:      Thu, 16 Sep 2004 03:41:14 -0000
From:      Pyun YongHyeon <yongari@kt-is.co.kr>
To:        pf4freebsd@freelists.org
Cc:        vjardin@wanadoo.fr
Subject:   [pf4freebsd] Re: 2 ports of PF for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20030627095725.GC90519@kt-is.co.kr>
In-Reply-To: <200306270835.48858.vjardin@wanadoo.fr>
References:  <005901c32f85$09558020$01000001@max900> <200306270835.48858.vjardin@wanadoo.fr>

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On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 08:35:48AM +0200, Vincent Jardin wrote:
 > On the tech-net@netbsd.org mailing list, Itojun announces that he is work=
 > ing=20
 > on the integration of PF into kame. Then, it means that there would be 2=20
 > ports for FreeBSD, doesn't it  ?=20
 > 
 > How difficult would it be to merge both pf4freebsd and the Kame's port ?
 > 
 > Regards,
 >   Vincent
 > 
This is interesting news. Coders participated in *BSD have began
to know the real truth. Currently PF is the best filter on *BSD world.
It has nearly all features and rapidly evolving package.
Users already might know how ipfw2, ipf lagged behind regarding new
features that required for todays' complex network environments.

I think Itojun can make it work for NetBSD without much trouble.
Supporters for ipf may object to replace ipf with pf. But I'm sure
they may change their mind if they give pf try. At least NetBSD can
ship both ipf and pf as FreeBSD does.

For FreeBSD, there is more problems than NetBSD. FreeBSD have no
ALTQ support and its IPv6 code is somewhat dated. I don't know why
the Core members resync with KAME and import ALTQ. If ALTQ is really
immature and unstable does this mean both NetBSD and OpenBSD has the
same problem? As users already know, both NetBSD and OpenBSD is
stable enough compared to FreeBSD.

Itojun may import PF into KAME tree. Which PF(our ported one or a new
one made by him) would be imported is not important to me.
I just wanted to use PF on FreeBSD. Because no one made PF work on
FreeBSD, I did it myself.
The most important thing is whether the FreeBSD Core Members will
import KAME tree. Our ported version can be a help until FreeBSD
imports KAME with PF.


 > -------------
 > 
 > >Le Jeudi 26 Juin 2003 12:09, itojun@iijlab.net a =3DE9crit :
 > >> ftp://ftp.kame.net/pub/kame/misc/netbsd-pf-20030626.diff
 > >Do you plan to integrate PF into Kame ?
 > 
 >         i'm using kame tree to port PF onto other platforms.
 >         (in KAME repository we have open/net/free3/4/5/bsdi3/4 with share=
 > d
 >         portion)
 > 
 > itojun
 > 
 > 

Reagrds
Pyun YongHyeon
-- 
Pyun YongHyeon <http://www.kr.freebsd.org/~yongari>;




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