Reimplementing pf as an eBPF/XDP dataplane on Linux

19 points

1/21/1970

2 days ago

by 882542F3884314B

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asmnzxklopqw

PF configuration language that author considers to be “the clearest expression of firewall intent anyone has shipped” is 95% the configuration language of ipfilter, the initial solaris and bsd firewall software. Quite suspicious that the author doesn’t mention it, especially when pf started merely as a clone of the latter.

2 days ago

hlieberman

Considering the author is the founder of pfSense and has been contributing to BSD since 1995, I suspect he knows about the origins of pf.

2 days ago

Chu4eeno

Considering the author of the text was an LLM (100% AI generated, not assisted on Pangram), I don't think so.

4 hours ago

throawayonthe

this seems very interesting, but the prose is extremely hard to read

2 days ago