| From: | Max Laier <max@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Tue, 13 Jul 2004 02:17:11 +0200 |
On Monday 12 July 2004 22:25, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > On 12.07.2004, at 22:10, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :That's a great news ! > > : > > :What is the OpenBSD packet filter and ALTQ status ? I saw on > > > > DragonFly www that > > > > :someone is working on it. Is it ready to use in Release 1.0 ? > > : > > :Regards, > > : > > :F.Julien > > > > There have been discussions about how best to consolidate the > > packet > > filters. I think there is a general trend towards the OpenBSD > > filter > > but it's still an open item. There's nothing new in 1.0 but I > > expect > > the issue will be resolved in the next few months. > > concerning pf: > I talked to Max Laier, but unfortuately he doesn't have any time at the > moment to port his work to DragonFly. I looked at his changes to the > original OpenBSD stuff and it doesn't see *that* big. mostly locking ... it will be more work for DF/FreeBSD4 as there have been some modifications to the mbuf API that must not be forgotten about. The big issue for FreeBSD4: "pfil_hooks" are taken care of (done by myself, committed by asmodai w/o credits), but there is still way to go. > and zone allocation. although I don't have any experience with these > things I will try to have a grip on it. I think we don't need as much > locking as FreeBSD needs when we decide from the beginning to have a > multithreaded packet filer (as tcp is doing already). Looking forward to see a multithreaded firewall. It's not a trivial thing to do, that's for sure! -- /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@xxxxxxxxxxx \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News
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