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Date:      Tue, 20 Aug 2019 09:46:00 -0400
From:      Mike <the.lists@mgm51.com>
To:        freebsd-pf@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Update to PF from OpenBSD 6.5
Message-ID:  <45b938a3-8fd4-4a70-aef5-7ddb22e0edb5@mgm51.com>
In-Reply-To: <85968D92-66E6-4024-83C9-D82C115A35FE@FreeBSD.org>
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On 8/20/2019 5:49 AM, Kristof Provost wrote:
> [snip]
> We’ve not done wholesale imports from OpenBSD in a long time, yes, but 
> FreeBSD’s pf is maintained, and regularly gets new features and bug 
> fixes. Fixes even flow in both directions between OpenBSD and FreeBSD.


Around the time the work was done on the OpenBSD pf to make it suitable
for what FreeBSD wanted, I suggested that FreeBSD at least change the
name to make looking for information about a specific flavor a bit easier.

Given the major changes listed in this thread and elsewhere, I am still
a bit surprised the name was not changed.




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