On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 17:12:18 -0600, Robert Simmons <[email protected]>
wrote:
Are there plans to update ipfilter or pf to current versions?
ipfilter is currently at 5.1.2, but the version in FreeBSD is 4.1.28
from 2007.
On the pf side, the version in FreeBSD is 4.5, but the current version
I would understand to be 5.2. The version in FreeBSD is pre-4.7, so
much of the syntax in the current documentation is different and does
not work in this older version.
Is IPFW the only maintained firewall option, or is there a way to
build either of the above as ports?
It takes a *lot* of work to re-port packet filters to a different BSD
kernel and ensure everything works perfectly. We recently received a nice
pf version bump with the release of 9.0 and it doesn't seem likely we'll
see another soon. There is an SMP-friendly fork of pf in progress for
FreeBSD. It may very well turn out that FreeBSD's pf completely diverges
from OpenBSD's permanently as OpenBSD has no interest in an SMP-friendly
pf.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-pf/2012-June/006643.html
As for IPFW -- I honestly don't know. I can't remember the last time there
was a major update of IPFW for FreeBSD.
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