Subject: Re: pf for NetBSD
To: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@netbsd.org>
From: Joel Wilsson <joelw@unix.se>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/07/2002 17:18:38
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 09:23:32AM +0100, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Joel Wilsson <joelw@sii.unix.se> said:
>
> > Personally I don't care, because the main reason I did this was to learn
> > more about the kernel, but I guess some might find it useful to take a
> > ruleset from their OpenBSD firewalls and use it directly under NetBSD.
>
> This could be done with a pf2ipf config file translator, without
> touching anything in the kernel...
>
Of course, but that wouldn't give exactly the same features as pf, and no
one has written such a config file translator.
You're missing the point. I wanted to learn more about the kernel, and this
was a great little project to do so.
I'm sure a pf2ipf program would be useful to some, but not to me.