RE: ipf / pf availability in 4.9

From: fbsd_user (fbsd_user_at_a1poweruser.com)
Date: 12/31/03

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    To: "Will Prater" <lists-wp@mercurycloud.net>, <questions@freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 08:12:57 -0500

    The post you are replying to tells you pf has been ported to FBSD.

    All you had to do is go look for it in the port collection your
    self,
    here is the direct link.

    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=pf&stype=all&release=5.1-
    CURRENT%2Fi386

    pf_freebsd-2.00_1
    OpenBSD pf as a kldmodule
    Maintained by: max@love2party.net
    Also listed in: ipv6
    Description : Sources : Package : Changes : Download

    http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/index.html

    -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
    [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Will Prater
    Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 2:59 AM
    To: questions@freebsd.org
    Subject: Re: ipf / pf availability in 4.9

    List,

    Anyone know if there is a way to get PF to port to FreeBSD 4.9?

    Thanks

    On Dec 30, 2003, at 7:26 PM, fbsd_user wrote:

    > PF has been just ported to FBSD. I don't know if ipf & pf have a
    > common code background, but I do know pf & ipf have totally
    > different rule processing logic though the rules do look some what
    > common. When it comes to using variables on the rule set, that is
    > just the normal function of shell processing. Ipfw, ipf, and pf
    can
    > all be buried inside of an shell script and perform variable
    > substitution.
    > In FBSD the rc.conf statement for pointing to the directory
    location
    > of the ipf rules can not process a script. You just point that
    > rc.conf statement to an empty file just to get the system up. Then
    > you have script in the startup application directory that executes
    > to load the ipf rules. Works great.
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
    > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of
    > j.l@telus.net
    > Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 7:35 PM
    > To: questions@FreeBSD.org
    > Subject: ipf / pf
    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > Here's a question that might seem trivial:
    >
    > What's the relationship between the freebsd ipf and the openbsd
    pf?
    > Are they
    > the same thing, or are they separately developed branches of a
    > common
    > codebase? Or maybe they are totally different. I ask this
    because
    > I was
    > looking around for guides for ipf.rules, and some of the openbsd
    pf
    > examples
    > look similar, but some command syntax are different. The openbsd
    > pf.conf
    > example had the ability to define variables of ip addresses,
    > interface names,
    > etc, but it doesn't seem to work with ipf.rules. Is there any way
    > to define
    > variables in ipf.rules?
    >
    > please cc me in your responses cause I'm not subscribed to the
    list
    >
    > thanks so much
    > jonathan
    >
    >
    >
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    --will

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