Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:09:21 -0500 From: Walt Elam <wrelam@gmail.com> To: Greg Hennessy <Greg.Hennessy@nviz.net> Cc: "freebsd-pf@freebsd.org" <freebsd-pf@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Getting Involved Message-ID: <CAConN%2Bmv1-rVo%2BrtpM2izNcfp9wuBqm7mVLnkcowKEzXkx9PFg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9EB23F6C23A8B6488E8BCC92A48E832612E69663C6@PEMEXMBXVS04.jellyfishnet.co.uk.local> References: <CAConN%2BkZquK7MJ_6YPtEV=sJdqC%2BniRqMmp2ZgQL%2Bo2m1wvXSQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAPBZQG2S9T4v_4g09mXaukG4o3_4w8h51py6-iPoA%2BgmsuenUw@mail.gmail.com> <9EB23F6C23A8B6488E8BCC92A48E832612A5BC03A9@PEMEXMBXVS04.jellyfishnet.co.uk.local> <E0053250-530D-4ADA-8230-E506814E475D@lists.zabbadoz.net> <CAConN%2Bke5h3V6fponKgKc_Yc_XgQ%2BGXo9p_Pqqg85NKkbW158w@mail.gmail.com> <CAConN%2Bkq8kHZGNUHP9vgZDNYbQWVAcWRsWS89iXASffsPDMCEg@mail.gmail.com> <20120126235543.GA38187@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <9EB23F6C23A8B6488E8BCC92A48E832612E69663C6@PEMEXMBXVS04.jellyfishnet.co.uk.local>
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Peter, thanks for your incredible detailed reply. That's exactly what I was looking for. I figure I would download all of the OpenBSD code, but does anyone have any pointers as to what parts of OpenBSD have the pf code? I suppose I could e-mail the original PF list to figure that out though. Thanks On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Greg Hennessy <Greg.Hennessy@nviz.net>wrote: > Hi Peter, > > That doesn't sound unreasonable, bearing in mind how much we all $ENJOY > using the operating system precisely because the interfaces are defined and > stable between major releases. > I would not have expected PF 4.7 and above to be backported. > > Reading between the lines of earlier posts I was getting the impression > that in case of PF it had been decided to set the 4.5 version of PF in > stone for now and ever more in FreeBSD. > Could be the wrong end of the stick on my part though. > ________________________________________ > From: owner-freebsd-pf@freebsd.org [owner-freebsd-pf@freebsd.org] On > Behalf Of Peter Jeremy [peterjeremy@acm.org] > Sent: 27 January 2012 10:55 > To: Walt Elam > Cc: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Getting Involved > > [SNIP] > > The whole problem is that the new syntax is not backward compatible > with the old syntax. There has recently been a fairly long thread in > -hackers discussing (in part) the need for long-term stability of > interfaces. The FreeBSD Project offers interface stability within > major versions, therefore an incompatible change in PF syntax could > not be introduced into any FreeBSD-9 or earlier branch. > > It would seem a reasonable goal to port pf 4.7 (or later) into -current > so it will form part of 10.x but I can't see it appearing in 9.x. > > -- > Peter Jeremy >
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