On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:43:10PM +0100, Jonas Carlsson wrote: > >It's not pretty, agreed, but it's unlikely to get changed in the near > >future. > Though, i must ask, howcome this is unlikely to be changed? Eventhough a > small matter, it seems to me > that this is going against all logic, simplicity and usability, things > I've found being characteristic for (the rest > of) OpenBSD.
compatibility. there's a large installed base nowadays. you don't want to upgrade and see your ruleset broken. if we would sit down now to design a new pf from the ground up, we'd do some moe stiff differently ;-) -- Henning Brauer, BS Web Services, http://bsws.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
