full-disclosure - OpenBSD 'pf' port (was FreeBSD heap to Linux)

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Message-ID: <200401280902.00573.jeremiah@nur.net>
From: jeremiah at nur.net (Jeremiah Cornelius)
Subject: OpenBSD 'pf' port (was FreeBSD heap to Linux)

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On Wednesday 28 January 2004 07:57, Burnes, James wrote:
> I've considered porting 'pf' to Linux 2.6, and while netfilter looks to
> be a faily powerful mechanism for firewalls, I'm afraid it would be a
> huge project. ?Probably better to rewrite the whole program from scratch
> and make it a work-a-like. ?The translation of the class-based-queueing
> mechanisms looks particularly daunting.

I have prayed for this - since 2.3-pre days!  If there is any traction on 
this, I'd love to hear about it.
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