Subject: Re: pf as the only one firewall in netbsd?
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Michal Stepien <admin@bezda.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/06/2006 00:14:27
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 09:57:19PM +0000, Manuel Bouyer 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.
>
This what you have said is very interesting. Do you (or other netbsd
developers) have some plans related to implementation
of this ideas in near future? Will be netbsd31 a revolution
in firewall/qos field?