Re: PF/ALTQ

[David Rhodus <drhodus@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Erik P. Skaalerud wrote:
> Does anyone here have any plans to import PF and ALTQ into FreeBSD? It's now 
> in FreeBSD 5.x base, so it shouldnt be too hard to import?
>
> Max Laier made a test import and it worked out pretty well, but it looks 
> like he's too buys at these times to import it for us. I also know that Matt 
> don't want things like security prioritized at this stage, but it still 
> would be nice to have the features. Alot of people are using OpenBSD on 
> their gateways/firewalls just because of PF/ALTQ.
>
> And some of us tries to run DragonFly on all boxes they can, just to help 
> out with bug reporting :)
>
> Erik 

I don't think this really should be a priority for the June release as 
too much low-level needs to go on, especially in the networking area. I 
personally haven't seen a great use for this, but from looking over the 
code real fast, it shouldn't take more than a day of work to do this.

As for security being prioritized, I would have to say that good code is 
secure. Thats the reason DragonFly doesn't have to go around flaunting 
to be secure. :-)

-DR