-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:11:13 -0400 David Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been trying to make some halting efforts to try and port pf to > Linux (I use Slack -- as well as OBSD, of course). I haven't seen > anything on the Net about pf on Linux, so I've concluded that no one's > > looked at porting pf to Linux. That's too bad, 'cause pf beats the > hell out of iptables for ease of use, configuration, etc. Since a lot > of the details of, for example, building a lkm, the net interface for > Linux and writing a Makefile, it's going to be awhile before I have > anything vaguely useful. So, in other words, don't hold your breath. Thank you very much for you time. I find iptables such a royal PITA. I bought Building Firewalls with OpenBSD and PF 2nd edition as I could not get my head around the binat keyword, as it was far too easy for me to understand. The rest of the book is pretty good, anyway, I'm side tracked now. Ah yes. I've been using the same iptables firewall script for 3-ish years, maybe more now simply because I could never reconstruct it from scratch without taking a week off from my normal duties. I can whip up a pf rule set in no time. I find the opposite when it comes to other things like running the latest GAIM version because darn yahoo or MSN change their protocol, getting everything upto date just takes longer. apt-get install gaim, on a Debian system gets it right. PF on linux would be 'awesome', so long as it did not become like the XP firewall. - -- Ed. Debian 3. OpenBSD 3.5. Two things came out of berkeley: BSD and LSD. Don't think this a coincidence. Can't cross chasm in small jumps PGP KeyID 04EDACDA A0F3 44E9 C367 C6C1 C891 4C71 69AF 3CF5 04ED ACDA -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBdqmtaa889QTtrNoRAnSmAJ9lwYGlTw6C9HT/oC4hNnARmTBcMwCeOHpf Jni61FKQsapE+BBmW8qL7Os= =plXO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
