Time to upgrade the pf port in FreeBSD ?

Daniel Gerzo danger at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jul 28 06:40:06 UTC 2010


On 28.7.2010 3:28, Xin LI wrote:
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> On 2010/07/27 18:23, Kristian Kræmmer Nielsen wrote:
>>   Hey,
>>
>> As of time being, we still include pf as of OpenBSD 4.1 (released May
>> 2007).
>>
>> So I was wondering, how many is actually using pf and is it time to get
>> together and update the current port of pf included in FreeBSD to a more
>> recent version?, e.x. the version from OpenBSD 4.7?
>>
>> Has anyone considered this? / is anyone interested in doing this?
>
> IIRC someone have work in progress in a svn branch but I'm not sure if
> it's HEAD-ready or not...

It is Ermal Luci (eri@) who is working on it. Unfortunately, I couldn't 
get any update for this project from him for the latest status report, 
however 6 months ago he submitted this: 
http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2009-10-2009-12.html#Syncing-pf%284%29-with-OpenBSD-4.5

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S pozdravom / Best regards
   Daniel Gerzo, FreeBSD committer


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