Plans for 6-CURRENT and 5-STABLE

[stheg olloydson]

--- Max Laier <max at love2party.net> wrote:


>No. Bridgeing is a completely different story. I'd welcome an import
>of if_bridge from Net/OpenBSD, but I will not have time to persue
this.
>There was an effort to do so, but - unfortunately - I lost track of
it.
>People interested should find it in the -current or -net archives.

This is what I thought. Unfortunately, doing anything about this is
beyond my skill level by a goodly margin.
 

>Largely depends on your workload, hardware and so forth. If you have
>- for example - a fairly heavy loaded MySQL on a 4way Xeon box, you'd
>want to run with mpsafenet=1 (and hence avoid using user/group rules).
>On an UP box it should not matter.

I have some of each, so we will see :). 

>There is no such thing as 5-RELEASE. RELENG_5_3 (which you might be
>confusing here) is solely for merging security fixes. All other
>changes go to RELENG_5 (aka 5-STABLE) and become part of the *next*
>release.

I should have said RELENG_5_>3. I know some thing, in general, not
specifically pf-related, are being held back until 6.0. I just wanted
to be sure these weren't included with those.

>The firewall chapter of the Handbook is being revised to give some
>information about PF as well. This will link to the OpenBSD PF-FAQ -
an >extra ordinary piece of documentation - for now. Depending on "how
bad" >we diverge from OpenBSD we will either maintain our own version
of the >FAQ or (more likely) describe the "delta" between Open- and
FreeBSD's >PF in the handbook's firewall chapter and continue to
reference the >FAQ.

Exactly my thoughts and opinions!

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Thanks for your quick response. Too bad about bridging. I know that's
outside your realm. In the worst case, though, I would run OpenBSD on
those machines and even that may not be necessary,  so really the
problem is minimal.

Best Regards,

Stheg



		
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