On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Mark Martinec <mark.martinec+free...@ijs.si>
wrote:

> On 2014-07-09 0:32, Kristian K. Nielsen wrote:
>
>> f) IPv6 support?- it seem to be more and more challenged in the current
>> version of pf in FreeBSD and I am (as well as others) introducing more
>> and more IPv6 in networks.
>> E.x. Bugs #179392, #172648, #130381, #127920 and more seriously #124933,
>> which is the bug on not handling IPv6 fragments which have been open
>> since 2008 and where the workaround is necessity to leave an open hole
>> in your firewall ruleset to allow all fragments. Occoring to comment in
>> the bug, this have been long gone in OpenBSD.
>>
>
> The neglect of IPv6 in FreeBSD's pf is a real deal-breaker for us.
> Besides the long-standing bugs (like: scrub reassemble tcp
> breaks CRC on IPv6), the following stands out:
>
>
Can you be a bit more verbose on this one?


> - last time I looked, neither PF nor IPFW could be used on a
> FreeBSD kernel built WITHOUT_INET. This means that features
> like ssh-guard and per-application protection on a dedicated
> IPv6-only host are not available
>
>
I am not sure on the version in FreeBSD 10 but on FreeBSD 9 and before it
should be possible to compile without INET afair!
Which version of FreeBSD are you testing this on?


> - no support for IPv6 prefix translation,
> and no stateful NAT64 support
>
>
Part of this is on my queue to be integrated from Open, soon!


>
> Then, unrelated to IPv6:
>
> - no support for DSCP (the TOS byte includes ECN bits, hard to
> filter out)
>
> - the new 'match' mechanism would be really nice to have
>
>
All of this is on pfSense side implemented.
I cannot state the clear timeline of integration into FreeBSD but patches
are avilable for pf from pfSense.


>
> Mark
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