Franco Fichtner write: >> I have immense respect for Matt as a user of his code since Amiga C >> compiler. I probably speak for lots of people both in OpenBSD and >> DragonFly camp if I say that I would prefer him to finish HAMMER2 and >> leave concurrent threading in PF to Henning.
> Talks about this date back at least two years. These days NetBSD is > doing npf(4), and FreeBSD and DragonFly moved on to implement their > own SMP support. > The rumors are that npf is a vaporware. DragonFly community is tiny. So tiny that in-spite of HAMMER I could not use DragonFly on my production file servers because it lacks LDAP support let alone NFSv4. FreeBSD always had its own genuine firewall solution IPFW. IPFW is so good that inspired even a better tool called iptables. Some people unfortunately didn't buy it. OS X switched from IPFW to PF couple releases ago. > Missing SMP support is the fork in the road. The window of > opportunity seems to be closing. A penny for Henning's thoughts on > this... > I would say it is about a time. PF has never meant to be portable. A quick look on the version of PF in use in other BSDs is quite revealing. That being said OpenBSD project has its own pace which has never being dictated by "current fashion trends" or a noise made by people like me who don't contribute the code. Thanks God for that! Predrag > > Cheers, > Franco
