Re: any interest in importing pf?

[Munish Chopra <chopra@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 08:10:27 +0000, Hiten Pandya wrote:

> Munish Chopra wrote:
>> No, as done in FreeBSD, pf can be brought in without ALTQ. ALTQ happens to
>> tie in very well and the pf/ALTQ combo is very powerful, so it'd be nice
>> to see them together -- I know several of us are awaiting that :) The
>> major problem with ALTQ for FreeBSD is the fact that an import is very
>> intrusive and touches many many things, so it's rather hard to do while a
>> lot of other work is going on.
> 
> 	I did update the ALTQ patchset to work for 5-CURRENT, but due to
> 	the lack of interest, it also faded away in the background. Most
> 	of the changes ALTQ patchset makes are not necessary and can be
> 	considered cosmetic.  Except for the ones made to the NIC code.
>

The latest ones I've seen are Max's and the ones from nipsi.de. They're
both considered too intrusive according to Max, but he expects to produce
a new one after 5.2-RELEASE when the network stuff has settled down. He
wasn't sure whether anyone wanted to import pf into FreeBSD before 5.2-R.

I spoke to Jeroen a few days ago and he seemed to have a bit of interest
in pf. He mentioned he'd look at it, but I suspect he has quite a bit on
his plate as it is.

-- 
Munish Chopra