Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 19:48:19 +0000 From: Thomas Laus <lausts@acm.org> To: Paul Pathiakis <pathiaki2@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using OpenBSD guest as PF firewall Message-ID: <0100017594cd88fb-b5e708e7-8213-4c8e-9446-9b1a28fb2a61-000000@email.amazonses.com> In-Reply-To: <974524126.1643642.1604508967098@mail.yahoo.com> References: <01000175941a2783-79804ed8-eafa-4f80-92d4-3f500e9d7993-000000@email.amazonses.com> <974524126.1643642.1604508967098@mail.yahoo.com>
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Paul Pathiakis [pathiaki2@yahoo.com] wrote: > Hi, > Is there a reason you would want to use OpenBSD versus FreeBSD? > FreeBSD has pf and I use it on my server at home. > > Are you exploring OpenBSD? Did you not know that pf is an > available firewall on FreeBSD? > The OpenBSD PF firewall is several revisions ahead and more inte- grated than one in FreeBSD. The PF versions diverged in OpenBSD 4.7 and the one in FreeBSD was left behind. I use them both on their respected OS. It was very recent in bhyve development that pci-passthru was finally operational with an OpenBSD guest and I was building a new server and wanted to test things out. Tom -- Public Keys: PGP KeyID = 0x5F22FDC1 GnuPG KeyID = 0x620836CF
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