pf(4) status in 7.0-R

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Wed Jun 6 10:40:51 UTC 2007


Max Laier <max at love2party.net> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > Max Laier <max at love2party.net> writes:
> > > Anything else?
> > ftp-proxy(8) and tftp-proxy(8) would be nice...
> ... I'm at it.  Could you maybe lend a hand with importing libevent[1]
> which is a requirement for ftp-proxy now?  It should make a good addition
> to base anyhow - as a convenient (and portable) interface to kqueue.

Convenient and portable, but buggy as hell - we used it in Varnish to
begin with but had to ditch it due to a combination of design flaws and
bugs.  It also suffers from creeping featuritis - the latest version
includes a DNS resolver and a full HTTP implementation...  it's only a
matter of time before it grows a lisp interpreter and a mail reader.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no


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