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Date:      Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:52:14 +0000
From:      David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Ermal Lu?i <eri@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-projects@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r232043 - projects/pf/head/sys/contrib/pf/net
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On 25 Feb 2012, at 09:09, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:

> I'm about to start improving pf regarding its SMP friendlyness. The
> changes are going to be so disruptive, that pretending that we are
> a shared code between OpenBSD and FreeBSD won't be possible.

At FOSDEM, there was some brief discussion about unifying the various firewall implementations we have, by providing a common bytecode format that all sets of firewall rules can be compiled to and (eventually) providing an LLVM-based JIT for this bytecode.  

If we're about to irreparably fork pf, perhaps now would be the correct time to have the discussion about exactly what is required.

David

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