Re: Why so many packet filters?

[Ryota Ozaki <ozaki-r%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 01:51:38PM +0900, Ryota Ozaki wrote:
>> BTW should we mark pf and ipf deprecated in netbsd-8 as they aren't
>> well maintained nowadays?
>
> While they are not maintained, PF works quite well for the feature set
> our version has. There are still quite a few issues with NPF, primarily
> documentation issues, but also some functional ones. It seems a bit
> premature to deprecate IPF and PF in the current situation. That said,
> they should certainly be considered legacy functionality.

Hmm, I thought npf is mature. I think it's better to have TODOs of npf
somewhere to clarify what we need to do to make it mature enough.

  ozaki-r