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justaboutanyone 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls

Has there ever been an effort to port PF over to linux, or to create an adaption layer that makes things compatible?

thesuitonym 8 months ago [–]

pf has been ported to Debian/kFreeBSD, but afaik no effort has been made to port it to the Linux kernel. A lot of networking gear already runs a BSD kernel, so my guess is the really high-level network devs don't bother because they already know BSD so well.

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