Future of pf / firewall in FreeBSD ? - does it have one ?

[Darren Reed]

On 21/07/2014 5:14 AM, Eric Masson wrote:
> krad <kraduk at gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
>> I really like the idea of the openpf version, that has been mentioned
>> in this thread.
> It would be nice but as it's been written in this thread, Open & Free
> internals are quite different beasts, goals are different on both
> platforms, so I doubt OpenPF will exist in the future.
>
>> It would be awesome if it ended up as a supported linux thing as well,
>> so the world could be rid of iptables.
> Linux world will get rid of iptables one of these days, nftables
> inclusion in mainline is a clear signal.
>

And the design behind nftables is similar to that of NetBSD's npf.

Darren