On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 07:16:47AM -0400, John Newman wrote:
No. Ipfilter (aka: Ipf) is Darren's / Phil's and has been dropped by Open and Dragonfly BSD, for license and other reasons, including being a dead project. last release: e9d51c6e58f549c4ab499254c81c90d2
PF (packet filter) is Open's, IPFW2 (ipfirewall) is Free's, NPF is Net's, IPFW3 is Dragon's. All actively maintained by their own communities. PF is ported to all.
Right, but all the SYNTAX was stolen from IPF. Or copied. Whatever you want to call it.
Pf has made some nice improvements in the years since, but there is no doubt it started as a clone of IPF so Theo could include the superior software firewall mechanism in openbsd without the license restrictions.
John
I've always thought the IPFW mechanism in FreeBSD was crap, compared to IPF/PF, just as an aside...
Years ago IPF was actually also ported to Solaris and Linux. I used it on some Sun boxes when I was just a little guy a long fucking time ago.....
John
Off-topic - I can't stand the way the phone email clients I habitually use format email. The results come out looking horrible. It's rare that I have a chance to reply to the list from an actual computer (generally I'm too busy when I'm in front of a real computer)... Anyway, I suppose I could start using mutt on android :P John