Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 17:38:23 +0200 From: Franco Fichtner <franco@lastsummer.de> To: "Mike." <the.lists@mgm51.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Future of pf / firewall in FreeBSD ? - does it have one ? Message-ID: <788274E2-7D66-45D9-89F6-81E8C2615D14@lastsummer.de> In-Reply-To: <201407200939020335.0017641F@smtp.24cl.home> References: <53C706C9.6090506@com.jkkn.dk> <6326AB9D-C19A-434B-9681-380486C037E2@lastsummer.de> <53CB4736.90809@bluerosetech.com> <201407200939020335.0017641F@smtp.24cl.home>
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On 20 Jul 2014, at 15:39, Mike. <the.lists@mgm51.com> wrote: > imho, the root problem here is that an effort to implement a single > feature improvement (multi-threading) has caused the FreeBSD version > of pf to apparently reach a near-unmaintainable position in the > FreeBSD community because improvements from OpenBSD can no longer be > ported over easily. FreeBSD's pf has been put in a virtual > isolation chamber due to the multi-threaded enhancement. > > Was it worth it? Yes. This happened *three times* in BSD land now. How much more proof does it take to make that clear? FWIW, I'm still volunteering, but I think the direction this discussion is going is that there is no clear direction, which makes this a tad less effective than it could be. ;) Cheers, Franco
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