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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