ipf / pf availability in 4.9

[fbsd_user]

The post you are replying to tells you pf has been ported to FBSD.

All you had to do is go look for it in the port collection your
self,
here is the direct link.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=pf&stype=all&release=5.1-
CURRENT%2Fi386


pf_freebsd-2.00_1
OpenBSD pf as a kldmodule
Maintained by: max at love2party.net
Also listed in: ipv6
Description : Sources : Package : Changes : Download


http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/index.html


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Will Prater
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 2:59 AM
To: questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ipf / pf availability in 4.9

List,

Anyone know if there is a way to get PF to port to FreeBSD 4.9?

Thanks


On Dec 30, 2003, at 7:26 PM, fbsd_user wrote:

> PF has been just ported to FBSD. I don't know if ipf & pf have a
> common code background, but I do know pf & ipf have totally
> different rule processing logic though the rules do look some what
> common. When it comes to using variables on the rule set, that is
> just the normal function of shell processing. Ipfw, ipf, and pf
can
> all be buried inside of an shell script and perform variable
> substitution.
> In FBSD the rc.conf statement for pointing to the directory
location
> of the ipf rules can not process a script. You just point that
> rc.conf statement to an empty file just to get the system up. Then
> you have script in the startup application directory that executes
> to load the ipf rules.  Works great.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of
> j.l at telus.net
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 7:35 PM
> To: questions at FreeBSD.org
> Subject: ipf / pf
>
> Hi,
>
> Here's a question that might seem trivial:
>
> What's the relationship between the freebsd ipf and the openbsd
pf?
> Are they
> the same thing, or are they separately developed branches of a
> common
> codebase?  Or maybe they are totally different.  I ask this
because
> I was
> looking around for guides for ipf.rules, and some of the openbsd
pf
> examples
> look similar, but some command syntax are different.  The openbsd
> pf.conf
> example had the ability to define variables of ip addresses,
> interface names,
> etc, but it doesn't seem to work with ipf.rules.  Is there any way
> to define
> variables in ipf.rules?
>
> please cc me in your responses cause I'm not subscribed to the
list
>
> thanks so much
> jonathan
>
>
>
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