Re: kern/50809: pf panics while purging state

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

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From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>, gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/50809: pf panics while purging state
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 10:59:23 -0500

 On Feb 15,  4:56pm, hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost (Hauke Fath) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: kern/50809: pf panics while purging state
 
 | On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:45:01 +0000 (UTC), Christos Zoulas wrote:
 | >  If we are not going to maintain them or spend cycles try to fix the
 | >  bugs people report, we should get people to use npf which we actively
 | >  maintain. For that we need to get npf to have feature parity with the
 | >  other packet filters.
 | 
 | Sounds good so far. What would help besides feature parity is a=20
 | conversion how-to.
 | 
 | > Hauke can you try switching in this case?
 | 
 | I'd love to - this is a six-core cpu - but it's not going to happen=20
 | quickly:
 | 
 | % wc -l /etc/pf.conf
 |      829 /etc/pf.conf
 | %
 | 
 | I have to be familiar enough with npf to convert the setup over a=20
 | weekend, or there'll be one less sysadmin.  ;)
 | 
 | Last I looked, tehre wasn't much npf documentation to speak of, but I=20
 | admit it's been a while.
 
 Have you seen this: https://www.netbsd.org/~rmind/npf/
 
 christos