Using OpenBSD guest as PF firewall

Thomas Laus lausts at acm.org
Wed Nov 4 19:48:21 UTC 2020


Paul Pathiakis [pathiaki2 at yahoo.com] wrote:
>  Hi,
> Is there a reason you would want to use OpenBSD versus FreeBSD?
> FreeBSD has pf and I use it on my server at home.
> 
> Are you exploring OpenBSD? Did you not know that pf is an
> available firewall on FreeBSD?
>
The OpenBSD PF firewall is several revisions ahead and more inte-
grated than one in FreeBSD.  The PF versions diverged in OpenBSD
4.7 and the one in FreeBSD was left behind.  I use them both
on their respected OS.  It was very recent in bhyve development
that pci-passthru was finally operational with an OpenBSD guest
and I was building a new server and wanted to test things out.

Tom

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