Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 14:26:43 +0100 From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> To: =?UTF-8?B?R2Vycml0IEvDvGhu?= <gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de> Cc: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Future of pf / firewall in FreeBSD ? - does it have one ? Message-ID: <CALfReycHtSi5GXgFZihrTsgDG6wc-ZfkYmQu7AjQmOKdeXntrA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140718151255.b3e677d9.gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de> References: <53C706C9.6090506@com.jkkn.dk> <20140718110645.GN87212@FreeBSD.org> <20140718151255.b3e677d9.gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de>
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this is also another important point. If you go onto google and search on how to do this and that under pf, you get a mix of freebsd, and openbsd stuff coming up. I havent analysed it but i think the majority of the stuff is openbsd related. THerefore I find some nice solution to my problem, only to find out a bit later I cant use it because its not supported under freebsd. This is anoying, but more importantly confuses new sysadmins and puts them off adopting pf and possibly a bsd at all. On 18 July 2014 14:12, Gerrit K=C3=BChn <gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:06:45 +0400 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> > wrote about Re: Future of pf / firewall in FreeBSD ? - does it have one ?= : > > GS> The pf mailing list is about a dozen of active people. Yes, they are > GS> vocal on the new syntax. But there also exist a large number of commo= n > GS> FreeBSD users who simply use pf w/o caring about syntax and reading p= f > GS> mailing list. If we destroy the syntax compatibility a very large > GS> population of users would be hurt, for the sake of making a dozen > GS> happy. > > I have thought about this for some time now, and I think I do not agree. = I > do remember quite well when OpenBSD changed from ipf to pf, and I had to > come up with new rules files. Yes, this is a burden for people maintainin= g > these systems, but if the thing is well documented and comes with benefit= s > (like staying in sync with other developers, allowing new features etc.) = I > doubt that many people will really be minding this. > > > cu > Gerrit > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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