Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:12:30 +0200 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: New PF (OpenBSD 3.7 ***ALPHA-preview***) Message-ID: <200504200112.41260.max@love2party.net>
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All,
at:
http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/pf37/
you will find the first shot at the long awaited import of a new version of
pf. This is level with what is likely to be shipped as OpenBSD 3.7 and
includes *most* of the features. Some are not yet implemented:
- Filtering on route labels (we don't have any).
- Return-rst on IP-less bridges (bridge support is still behind; There is
work ongoing to improve this as well, though.).
- Congestion prevention/graceful comeback (subject to future work).
There are, however, some hightlights that came with OpenBSD 3.6 and will be
coming with OpenBSD 3.7 (from the OpenBSD release notes):
+ pfctl(8) now provides a rules optimizer to help improve filtering speed.
+ pf, now supports nested anchors.
+ Support limiting TCP connections by establishment rate, automatically
adding flooding IP addresses to tables and flushing states
(max-src-conn-rate, overload <table>, flush global).
+ Improved functionality of tags (tag and tagged for translation rules,
tagging of all packets matching state entries).
+ Improved diagnostics (error messages and additional counters from
pfctl -si).
+ New keyword set skip on to skip filtering on arbitrary interfaces, like
loopback.
+ Several bugfixes improving stability.
This import is in a very early stage and you should keep this in mind!
However, it should build and boot just fine. I have done some basic tests to
weed out the common problems seen during the last imports, but didn't do
extensive testing yet. If you are in a position where you can test this, I
am looking forward to getting your feedback!
Updates will be posted to the freebsd-pf mailing list. Thanks.
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