Update to PF from OpenBSD 6.5

Goran Mekić meka at tilda.center
Tue Aug 20 10:32:17 UTC 2019


On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 11:49:18AM +0200, Kristof Provost wrote:
> One thing I’ve thought of trying, and that might be an interesting stepping
> stone, is to create a port (/usr/ports/net/opf or whatever) of OpenBSD’s pf.
> In that version it’d be acceptable to not fix any of the above issues. It’d
> still give users to option of getting the new syntax. I’d expect this to be
> a relatively straightforward exercise.
That would be cool, but only if FreeBSD PF can not be "fixed" to support
OpenBSD PF syntax.

> In principle there’s nothing to stop us from doing that same work in base,
> but we’re **NOT** going to import a fourth firewall. We’re just not.
Are you sure? https://2019.eurobsdcon.org/talk-speakers/#NPF. At least I
hope the import is pfil based.

Regards,
meka
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