svn commit: r345760 - in head: contrib/pf sys/netpfil/pf sbin/pfctl

[Mateusz Guzik]

On 4/1/19, Kristof Provost <kp at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Author: kp
> Date: Mon Apr 1 06:51:32 2019
> New Revision: 345760
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/345625
>
> Log:
>   pf: Remove obsolete pf
>
>   pf in FreeBSD lags years behind OpenBSD's pf.
>   Remove it.
>
>   Users are advised to migrate to ipf.
>

I think you jumped the gun here. I understand maintaing pf in isolation
is a burden and it prompted the removal, but there are other projects
which also have the port.

I think a reasonable course of action would be to maintain a portable pf
port as a join effort with NetBSD. To that end you can start with
replacing FreeBSD network stack with theirs to increase compatibility.

After that it's all smooth sailing.
-- 
Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com>