> Otto, Henning and Stuart ....to-the-point answers. Thanks guys. I have taken > the post over to FreeBSD list. However, Henning, I am curious why you call > pf on anything but OpenBSD a "starter drug?" Is the performance difference > that huge? pf on FreeBSD 7.2 is version 4.1.
The people you are asking barely remember how OpenBSD 4.1's pf behaved. Take a moment and think back of what you were doing in February of 2007. This will momentary put you into the mindset that you are asking these guys to put themselves into. We don't remember.