Re: Proposed Improvements to NPF

[Emmanuel Nyarko <emmankoko519%gmail.com@localhost>]

> On 7 Jun 2025, at 9:21 PM, Josh Moyer <JMoyer%nodomain.net@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Emmanuel wrote:
>> I’m the current maintainer now. happy to have you.
>> if you want pointers to the codebase, feel free to reach out.
>> can be of help.
> 
> Thanks Emmanuel!  I've already been looking at [1] and have
> kind of a vague idea as to how to proceed.  Will let you
> know of specific questions, if any.
> 
> Also, 'prolly worth apologizing for swooping in here...  For the
> record, I do NOT have ambitions to become NPF maintainer.  I just
> (badly) need the multiple interface per group and nested variable
> features to simplify my somewhat broken 720 line npf.conf.
> 
> If you want to do the implementation that would be GREAT, frankly.
> However, I am hoping to fix my long standing problems with my
> configuration sooner rather than later, hence my proposal.  Let
> me know how I should proceed.

Currently, I’m working on other things. i think you can go ahead with the multiple interface per group work.

and maybe you could send a simple rule that uses nested variables and crashes. I submitted some null-checks patch in the config recently, and maybe could also trace it there too.
> 
> [1] /usr/src/usr.sbin/npf/(npfctl/)
> 
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