On 21 September 2011 09:05, Matthew Seaman <m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk>wrote:
> On 21/09/2011 08:34, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 21/09/2011 07:34, Modulok wrote: > >> Is there an easy way to find out what version of PF a given FreeBSD > version is > >> using? Currently I'm doing this: > >> > >> grep -iE '\bpf\b' /usr/src/UPDATING > >> > >> Just wondering if I'm missing something. I didn't see any '--version' > >> flag in pfctl. > > > > Uh -- bpf is a different thing to PF. bpf is Berkeley Packet Filter > > which isn't anything to do with firewalling, but used eg. by tcpdump to > > select certain packets from the wire. As far as I know, bpf doesn't > > have a separate version number; it just uses the OS version number. > > It's been part of BSD Unices since dinosaurs roamed the earth. > > One of these days I'll learn not to send e-mail before coffee. Please > ignore the above -- red herring. > > > PF is the firewalling code imported from OpenBSD. Again, it's part of > > the base system in OpenBSD so it just uses the OpenBSD version number. > > Every so often there will be a new import from OpenBSD -- I believe most > > released versions of FreeBSD are using PF from OpenBSD 4.2, but there is > > an update to OpenBSD 4.mumble in the works for the upcoming FreeBSD 9.0 > > release. You'ld have to check the commit history in CVS or SVN to be > sure. > > In fact, the last import listed as such in the CVS history was from > OpenBSD 4.1 but that was around 2007 when FreeBSD was on version 6.x -- > long time ago. There's been plenty of updates since (which, IIRC, made > the FreeBSD code pretty much equivalent to what is in OpenBSD 4.2), but > no wholesale reimport until about 2 months ago, when OpenBSD 4.5 code > was imported into head. > > http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=223637 > > AFAIK, that is not a candidate for MFC to stable/8 or earlier, as it > modifies KBIs. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard > Flat 3 > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate > JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW > > If its been syncd to openbsd 4.5 version of pf, its still quite a way behind openbsd's version in the latest release as they are not on 4.9 with 5.0 imminent. Looking at the docs there were quite a lot of changes when openbsd was bumped to 4.7 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
