Joel Wilsson recently announced his updated port of PF for NetBSD 1.6.1. Based on the PF code found in the recently released OpenBSD 3.3 [story], Joel's port is loaded into NetBSD as a kernel module and currently lacks support for ALTQ or IPv6. However, looking forward he says, "I know some of you want support for IPv6, and don't worry, it's coming. Some time next week I hope to have a set of patches against NetBSD-current that will give us a fully featured pf for NetBSD." Joel's goal is to eventually have PF integrated into the NetBSD -current tree.

The OpenBSD packet filter was also recently ported to FreeBSD by Pyun YongHyeon [story]. Pyun's port continues to evolve, having reached version 1.0 and now begining to support ALTQ.

From: Joel Wilsson
To: tech-net AT netbsd.org, pf AT benzedrine.cx
Subject: pf from OpenBSD 3.3 as LKM for NetBSD 1.6.1
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 01:12:45 +0200 (CEST)

Hello everyone,

I'm happy to announce an updated port of pf to NetBSD, once again
as a loadable kernel module without support for ALTQ or IPv6.

Tar-ball and instructions available here:
http://www.unix.se/joelw/pflkm.html

I would really appreciate any feedback I can get, so don't
hesitate to mail me if you have any questions or suggestions
(or anything else to say). I know some of you want support
for IPv6 support, and don't worry, it's coming. Some time
next week I hope to have a set of patches against NetBSD-current
that will give us a fully featured pf for NetBSD.

I wonder if core AT netbsd still thinks pf is too immature to be
integrated into the main tree...

Hope some of you find this useful,
  joelw



From: Henning Brauer
Subject: Re: pf from OpenBSD 3.3 as LKM for NetBSD 1.6.1
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 01:27:04 +0200

On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 01:12:45AM +0200, Joel Wilsson wrote:
> I wonder if core AT netbsd still thinks pf is too immature to be
> integrated into the main tree...

immature? that is funny ;-)

-- 
Henning Brauer, BS Web Services, http://bsws.de
Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity.
(Dennis Ritchie)



From: Joel Wilsson
Subject: Re: pf from OpenBSD 3.3 as LKM for NetBSD 1.6.1
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 01:44:40 +0200 (CEST)

On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 01:27  AM, Henning Brauer wrote:
>>On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 01:12:45AM +0200, Joel Wilsson wrote:
>>I wonder if core@netbsd still thinks pf is too immature to be
>>integrated into the main tree...
>
>immature? that is funny ;-)

6 months ago I at least found it understandable (even if I didn't
agree), but not any more. Perhaps I should update the page to
reflect that, but I'm too lazy right now. I hope they have changed
their opinion.

//joelw

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