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OpenBSD Packet Filter Changes Syntax Language

Posted by timothy on from the aber-selbstverstaendlich dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As seen on this article on the OpenBSDJournal, Henning, one of PF main contribuitors writes: 'After much discussion we made a hard decision: we will change pf syntax from English to German.' So, what are the implications of this? And why the change? Read on."

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  1. Re:Help me here... by almeida · · Score: 2, Informative

    Aha! Good question. The IPv4 security bit will not be implemented on OpenBSD because IPv4 support has been dropped. Todd Fries says, "It is too hard to get IPv4 addresses, we're switching to IPv6 tomorrow."

    (This post is a day late, of course, so just pretend it's still the 1st.)