Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 17:39:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Darrel <levitch@iglou.com> To: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: [solved] manual page | zpool-features < discontinue PF Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.2.00.1209221734520.1799@shell1> In-Reply-To: <505DB5CC.4010707@a1poweruser.com> References: <alpine.GSO.2.00.1209181050190.28869@shell1> <20120918205617.02ee281e@fabiankeil.de> <alpine.GSO.2.00.1209181532050.29285@shell1> <alpine.GSO.2.00.1209191233450.3885@shell1> <alpine.GSO.2.00.1209212201450.11271@shell1> <505DB5CC.4010707@a1poweruser.com>
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> snip >> >> Actually, I am becoming suspicious that FreeBSD does not maintain a OpenBSD >> Packet Firewall that survives upgrades. Perhaps I should just take all of >> the Packet Firewall stuff out of my kernel and learn to use ipfw2. >> >> >> Darrel >> >> > > On the subject of OpenBSD Packet Firewall > > OpenBSD 4.5 version of PF firewall which is included with the base FreeBSD > 8.x and 9.x releases is no longer supported by OpenBSD and very back level. > > The most current version of OpenBSD is 5.1. PF version 5.0 changed the syntax > of the NAT statement making PF no longer backwards compatible which breaks > some Freebsd standard, so updated versions of OpenBSD PF will no longer be > mass ported to FreeBSD. Any bug fix code to OpenBSD PF will have to be > incorporated by hand into FreeBSD's version of PF from this point on. > > The following will shine some more light on the subject. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=167057 > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-pf/2012-September/006740.html > > Second reply. I intended to change the subject line to solved. Just for informational purposes, you might not want to do any firewall comparison on the OpenBSD misc list. A Packet Firewall developer responded to me personally, writing that the signal-to-noise ratio was too high and to refrain from posting to the list. So much for solving problems and sharing ideas. Darrelhome | help
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