Subject: Re: pf as the only one firewall in netbsd?
To: None <rmk@rmkhome.com, tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/05/2006 21:57:19
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:32:31PM +0200, Michal Stepien wrote:
> I was said that pf is not integrated with netbsd3.0
> because developer of netbsd wants to integrate both
> pf and ipf with altq. Up to now there is no integration

BTW, this is not the exact reason. We'd like an API which is not
dependant on pf, so that it can be used with other classifiers than pf.
You may want to classify packets on other criteria than content of the
IP header, or even non-IP packets. I've done this in the past.