How does /dev/pf get created?

[David DeSimone]

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Gavin Spomer <spomerg at cwu.EDU> wrote:
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> Although it was new to me, a couple of quick glances at man pages and
> experiments produced a /dev/pf for me.

Can you tell us what it was that you changed?  Someone else may need to
know, someday.

> One thing I really dig so far about pf versus the firewall I use on my
> SuSE machines (iptables), is that I don't have to reboot for changes
> to take effect.  Way happy about that!  :)

It has been a while since I worked with iptables, but I have NEVER had
to reboot in order to make changes to it.  That is just bizarre!

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