Re:OpenBSD 'pf' port (was FreeBSD heap to Linux)

["Ian Latter" <Ian.Latter () mq edu au>]

> If anyone is currently working on this I'd like to hear from them. 

I thought the ANU guys had made an ipfilter port to linux at about
(linux) kernel 2.0 (it was an option against ipfwadm) .. but I have
just done a quick search and I can't see any reference to that.


> It's not that I don't like OpenBSD, it's just that there are some projects
> where I need a decent firewall to be co-resident with Linux.  IPTables
> is not an option unless it's my only option.

What could you get from pf that you couldn't get from iptables (I've
not played with the little devil yet)?


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Ian Latter
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