[HEADS UP] merging projects/pf into head

Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb-lists at lists.zabbadoz.net
Sun Sep 9 17:01:51 UTC 2012


On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:

Hi,

>  Thus, I plan to merge projects/pf/head to head this weekend, and
> this is a HEADS UP email! You have been warned. :)

thanks for the work and handling the fallout:)


>  What I'd like to do next:
>
>  1) Move pf out of contrib.

I'd rather wait a bit with that so that other things can settle.
I am also not happy with where other firewalls etc currently live and
stuff so I think having a better understanding on where all this will
move would be good.


>  2) Refactor the pfvar.h into pf.h and pf_var.h. Provide stable
>     kernel<->pfctl ABI. And probably other clean up tasks.

Yes, and being extensible is really important.


>  ...
>  3) ... too far to build any plans, yet. :)

Ah, NAT64, Proper V_irtualization handling for what you might not have
done (I should go back and look), frag6 support, ...  a bugfix from
Apple/Open we need to implement, ... more cherry picking on some
changes ....;-)

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