-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dave Feustel wrote: | Can pf be used on F9? Doesn't iptables do what you need? | Would there be any advantage or disadvantage in doing so? The linux kernel is designed for iptables, I don't know what surgery you'd have to do to fit pf in instead. N.B. I have both linux (iptables) and FreeBSD (pf) machines here, and haven't seen any compelling reason to prefer one over the other. - -- - -John (john(a)os2.dhs.org)

Advantages: - the config is human-friendly, and uniform across any BSD version unlike iptables's non-standardised config and the non-human-readable iptables-save output - it has a clean and intuitive, natural language-like syntax, its rules equivalent to iptables' tend to be much shorter and easier to understand by newbies(also see Ubuntu's ufw) - the config file can be checked for syntax correctness before being applied - provides an integrated shaper Disadvantages: Not Invented Here or license divergence that caused a rewrite instead of using/porting existing software. You can also see Alsa vs. Open Sound System, BTRFS vs ZFS. :lol: -- This is an email sent via The Fedora Community Portal https://fcp.surfsite.org https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=331945&t... If you think, this is spam, please report this to webmaster(a)fcp.surfsite.org and/or blame majeru(a)gentoo.ro.