On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 15:21:42 +0100, Przemysław Pawełczyk <pp...@o2.pl> wrote: > 1. I understand that someone will put PF 4.2 guide on DF WWW.
You just volunteered? [...] > 4. I do know nothing about "packet filters" future implementations in > DF: > > a) was the PF 4.2 implemented verbatim or was it tighter integrated with > DF MP kernel and as such it constitutes new - DF - flavor of PFs? One goal was to minimize the diff to the Original OpenBSD source to ease further imports. As already mentioned fairq and pickups support have been kept intact, OpenBSD doesn't have this, nor does any other BSD (to my knowledge). Oh, and yes, we have SMP-capable socket lookups. Still I wouldn't call it an own flavour of pf, as the goal is the opposite. It's pf with df-specific features. > b) will PF presence in DF be continued in the future or will it be > supplanted with NPF or other "MP aware packet filters"? >From the look in my crystal ball I can tell you... I don't know, nobody knows, as this is all depending on finding individuals willing to invest their spare time. It is not possible to set up a 3-year roadmap as there are no plannable ressources in such a project. I can tell you that my personal goal is to reach version equality with OpenBSD and stay up-to-date from there on, but this is not a promise nor an obligation on my side. If NPF is production ready, I am quite sure I will take a look, too. Jan -- professional: http://www.oscar-consult.de private: http://neslonek.homeunix.org/drupal/