Updating PF
Greg Hennessy
Greg.Hennessy at nviz.net
Sat Sep 1 01:44:47 PDT 2007
> > You are running the version of PF which ships as standard with
> FreeBSD
> > 6.1. Which IIRC is the same as shipped with OpenBSD 3.6.
>
> 3.7 in RELENG_6, 3.5 in RELENG_5, 4.1 in what is to become RELENG_7.
>
My mistake Max :-), thanks for the correction.
> If this box can take a downtime once in a while (i.e. not 100% mission
> critical) and you are interested in helping, then consider running the
> latest CURRENT. It is in good shape and has the newest pf (4.1).
I would concur.
> Just
> grab a snapshot or compile from source.
>
Given that the OP is not confident building from source and is treating the
installation as an appliance by using FWBuilder to manage security policy,
Unless he has driver issues, I would second the advice w.r.t installing
OpenBSD 4.1 instead.
Greg
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