Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 20:51:46 +0200 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@gmx.com> To: Chris Buechler <cbuechler@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PF bugs Message-ID: <51C5F242.1010608@gmx.com> In-Reply-To: <CAOmxWMXfKyr5gjQUpqqraTVaLJ3XOFNK7P040FPOCSaMGigXdA@mail.gmail.com> References: <1371865788.22524.9.camel@localhost> <CAOmxWMXfKyr5gjQUpqqraTVaLJ3XOFNK7P040FPOCSaMGigXdA@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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