PF bugs

[olli hauer]

On 2013-06-22 20:51, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
> 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
> 

Even I have no numbers Gleb posted a view graphs

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-pf/2012-June/006662.html

The graphs are still available and based on Gleb's first work, I guess the numbers are even better.

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olli