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OpenBSD Packet Filter Ported To NetBSD, FreeBSD

Posted by timothy on from the undetectable-natting dept.

honold writes "just read this on deadly.org (from Pyun YongHyeon): "Hello there. I have ported pf to FreeBSD 5.0 Currently it works well, though many nice features of pf not tested. I have ported to make FreeBSD users know there is an another excellent stateful packet filter with BSD license. URL is the following. ftp://ftp.kr.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-kr/misc/pf_fr eebsd_0.3.tar.bz2 Thanks." netbsd has a port as well Where are you, Linux?"

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  1. why this is interesting? think high availability by ubiquitin · · Score: 5, Insightful



    I'm going to take up the challenge here of explaining why this is interesting. Since November of 2002, OpenBSD's pf has had support for load balancing. RedHat's $2499 Premium Edition of their Enterprise distro features Piranha load balancing which was derived from the Linux High Availability project.

    So what the OpenBSD pf project is giving you is enterprise-class high availability and load-balance clustering for a tiny fraction of the price. With a handful of cheap dotcom-throw-away x86 servers, a small company or mildly well-capitalized individual can personally build a multi-datacenter-fault-tolerant clustering setup that will rival Fortune 500 uptime ratings.

    In other words, the pf project's list of accomplishments is starting to read like a ToDo list for RedHat's Enterprise Linux development team.

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