OT - ugrade from 5.4 to 6.0-BETA

Odhiambo Washington wash at wananchi.com
Mon Aug 22 10:10:22 GMT 2005


* On 22/08/05 08:53 +0200, J. Martin Petersen wrote:
> Jason wrote:
> >I have noticed that these features of PF are supported in OpenBSD's pf, but
> >not FreeBSD's pf.  Is there any patch to add them, or plan to add support
> >for them in the future?  Have I done something wrong?  Thanks.
> 
> pf in FreeBSD 5.x is based on what shipped with OpenBSD 3.5, the 
> functionality you mention was added to pf on OpenBSD in 3.6 or 3.7. pf 
> in FreeBSD 6.x will be based on pf from OpenBSD 3.7, so you'll probably 
> find those features there (i.e. you could try the 6.0-BETA).


Is there any know big harm using CVSUP to upgrade from 5.4 to 6.x?
I'd like to do this without reinstalling. Just changing the
RELENG_TAG:

*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6 (??)

I'd like try these new features of PF on that platform.


-Wash

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