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Subject: Re: Time to upgrade the pf port in FreeBSD ?
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>>>>> "Kristian" =3D=3D Kristian Kr=C3=A6mmer Nielsen <freebsd@com.jkkn.dk>=
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Kristian> The later version of pf is easier to use.

Indeed, but when I asked this a while back, one of the issues is that
the new syntax is *not* upward compatible.  Judging from the traffic on
the openbsd list, this has caused a bunch of upgrade questions.
This would have to be handled carefully with freebsd as well.

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