Re: NetBSD packet filter

Vadim Goncharov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.network
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 29 Sep 2024 12:08:35 +0200
Edgar Fuß <[email protected]> wrote:

> > One of the responses in the tech-net thread said that pf would in
> > fact be removed from NetBSD, some day, leaving npf as the only
> > firewall.  
> There's still ipf, or has it been removed recently?

As far as I understood original post, ipf misses features from pf
needed by topicstarter.

> > The combination of all the above motivated me a year or two ago to
> > change my routers to run FreeBSD with pf.  
> I seeb to be confused about the various BSD packet filters.
> Isn't pf an OpenBSD thing 

Yes.

> and FreeBSD has created its own one?

Not quite. FreeBSD ported pf from OpenBSD, but then it became it's own
fork due to adding of SMP support (original pf scales badly, as OpenBSD
itself), so pulling new thing from upstream to FreeBSD's pf became
harder and slower.

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