Peter, thanks for your incredible detailed reply. That's exactly what I was looking for.
I figure I would download all of the OpenBSD code, but does anyone have any pointers as to what parts of OpenBSD have the pf code? I suppose I could e-mail the original PF list to figure that out though. Thanks On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Greg Hennessy <greg.henne...@nviz.net>wrote: > Hi Peter, > > That doesn't sound unreasonable, bearing in mind how much we all $ENJOY > using the operating system precisely because the interfaces are defined and > stable between major releases. > I would not have expected PF 4.7 and above to be backported. > > Reading between the lines of earlier posts I was getting the impression > that in case of PF it had been decided to set the 4.5 version of PF in > stone for now and ever more in FreeBSD. > Could be the wrong end of the stick on my part though. > ________________________________________ > From: owner-freebsd...@freebsd.org [owner-freebsd...@freebsd.org] On > Behalf Of Peter Jeremy [peterjer...@acm.org] > Sent: 27 January 2012 10:55 > To: Walt Elam > Cc: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Getting Involved > > [SNIP] > > The whole problem is that the new syntax is not backward compatible > with the old syntax. There has recently been a fairly long thread in > -hackers discussing (in part) the need for long-term stability of > interfaces. The FreeBSD Project offers interface stability within > major versions, therefore an incompatible change in PF syntax could > not be introduced into any FreeBSD-9 or earlier branch. > > It would seem a reasonable goal to port pf 4.7 (or later) into -current > so it will form part of 10.x but I can't see it appearing in 9.x. > > -- > Peter Jeremy > _______________________________________________ freebsd-pf@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-pf To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-pf-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
