portable pf

[Paul B. Henson]

Is there any widespread interest in developing a portable version of pf,
similar to portable ssh? I know some efforts have been made to port it to
other BSD variants, but I would be very interested in a Solaris port. I've
used ipf under Solaris for a long time, however pf has long since overtaken
it in feature set and reliability. I have ongoing issues with system
crashes under Solaris when a lot of state is maintained.

I would be interested in undertaking it myself but unfortunately I have
ongoing repetitive stress issues and have a hard enough time keeping up
with actual job duties :(... I could however host a development
environment.


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Re: portable pf

[Max Laier]

From: Paul B. Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 9:05 PM
Subject: portable pf

 Is there any widespread interest in developing a portable version of pf,
 similar to portable ssh? I know some efforts have been made to port it to
 other BSD variants, but I would be very interested in a Solaris port. I've
 used ipf under Solaris for a long time, however pf has long since
overtaken
 it in feature set and reliability. I have ongoing issues with system
 crashes under Solaris when a lot of state is maintained.

While working on Pyun's FreeBSD-port I did think about such a project as
well and (memory allocation provided [pool(9)/zone(9) or alike]) it should
not be too hard to get it working on other platforms (with ipf/pfil_hooks).
I started to clean up our FreeBSD port in order to make it more easy to keep
up with the development in OpenBSD-Current and will keep an eye on the
possiblity to include other porting efforts as well. If you are working on
something, please contact me.

I didn't find time to look at the NetBSD port yet, but I will try to.

Max