Hi, > On May 12, 2016, at 11:24 PM, Joshua M. Clulow <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 12 May 2016 at 13:59, Adam Števko <[email protected]> wrote: >> Some of us love the Packet Filter (PF) from OpenBSD. >> >> It would be awesome to have this available on illumos as alternative to ipf. >> We (sjorge and xenol) played around with the idea of a kickstarter. The >> budget required for that would probably be much more than what we can >> collect. > > I started working on a port[1] a while ago, but obviously it hasn't > been high enough on my list to actually get something to work. Part > of what I was trying to decide was how far we would want to diverge > from the upstream, with the obvious caveat that divergence makes it > harder to stay in sync.
Well, I suppose the smaller the divergence, the better it would be. But that’s the theory. > Who would be funded via the Kickstarter to actually do the work? The person is not yet known. We just want to know how many potential backers could we get and if it’s even possible to fund the port. > [1]: > https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent/blob/jclulow_pf/usr/src/uts/common/inet/pf > > <https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent/blob/jclulow_pf/usr/src/uts/common/inet/pf> Good to know. Cheers, Adam
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