Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 22:13:26 +0200 From: olli hauer <ohauer@gmx.de> To: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PF bugs Message-ID: <51C60566.4080306@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <51C5F242.1010608@gmx.com> References: <1371865788.22524.9.camel@localhost> <CAOmxWMXfKyr5gjQUpqqraTVaLJ3XOFNK7P040FPOCSaMGigXdA@mail.gmail.com> <51C5F242.1010608@gmx.com>
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On 2013-06-22 20:51, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > Hi Chris (and list), > > On 06/22/2013 04:44 AM, Chris Buechler wrote: >> pf is actively developed and maintained on FreeBSD, and widely used. >> The PRs that are open are largely ages old, no longer relevant and >> need to be cleaned up, or were bunk to begin with. There aren't really >> that many open either considering, every component of any widely used >> OS has open bugs. That's not indicative of anything in itself >> generally. FreeBSD+pf is the base of a significant number of >> firewalls, 180,000+ known live systems on pfSense alone (though that's >> not quite stock FreeBSD pf, it's close), and many others. > > It seems that people think that pf is unmaintained. > Quite a disheartening thing for the person that did the hard work > to create the smp-friendly pf in FreeBSD-10... > > I would be very happy if you had some performance comparison numbers > between the old and new pf code that you would like to publish! > > Thanks a lot, > > Nikos > Even I have no numbers Gleb posted a view graphs http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-pf/2012-June/006662.html The graphs are still available and based on Gleb's first work, I guess the numbers are even better. -- olli
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