Quote:
Originally Posted by BSDfan666
The FreeBSD/NetBSD folks need to stop referring to OpenBSD for their outdated fork of pf, as do users of those operating systems.. as it's only going to frustrate them.
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I am sure
BSDfan666 meant
"...stop referring to OpenBSD 's documentation for their outdated forks of pf(4), ...".
Otherwise, I completely agree with his analysis. Henning Brauer, the primary OpenBSD developer working on
pf(4), has rearchitected
much of its internals over several recent OpenBSD releases. These rapid changes have made it hard enough for the OpenBSD community to keep up; it must be virtually impossible for the other *BSD projects.
Syntax which may have been correct a few releases
(of OpenBSD) ago will now create errors. I'm sure the converse is true too -- using the current OpenBSD
pf(4) documentation on the older versions integrated into FreeBSD & NetBSD must be as equally frustrating in creating viable rulesets.