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PF Gets Synchronization Patch

Posted by michael on from the round-robin dept.

Dan writes "Julien Bordet announces that Packet Filter (PF) now has "pfsyncd" - the ability to synchronize states across multiple firewalls. Kernel patches and alpha source code to the userland daemon can be found here. This is an alpha release meant for testing and should not be used in production. Testing, patches, and feedback is greatly appreciated."

17 comments

  1. Excellent! by jo42 · · Score: 1, Interesting
    Way to go OpenBSD!

    Load balancing, state syncronization, and a secure, small OS.

    Linux is dying.

    1. Re:Excellent! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Linux is dying

      Right.... as long you have the BSD movement full of elitist a**holes I highly doubt that Linux will die. WTF? I don't see why both can't exist.

    2. Re:Excellent! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I think the Linux user base has many more a-holes... after all neearly every bsd story had the post on how it is dying

  2. Re:With each passing release by TheRaven64 · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Actually, they're probably right. How many people do you think are going to be running *BSD in 1000 years? *BSD is dying. So is Linux, and so is Windows, all at about the same rate (maybe give or take a decade). That's what happens in any technological field, things are developed until they are superceded, and all the time they are in use they are waiting for something better to come along to eclipse them (i.e. 'dying'). Any given technology has three main phases:

    1. Not invented yet
    2. Dying
    3. Dead
    You make it sound like being dying is a bad thing. Looked at your body recently? I don't like to break this to you, but it's dying as well.
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  3. Re:With each passing release by evilviper · · Score: 2
    How many people do you think are going to be running *BSD in 1000 years?

    I don't know. How many people thought Unix was still going to be a ``cutting-edge" operating system today, 30+ years ago? How many people thought that BSD would thrive for decades as well?

    I don't know what computing will look like in 1000 years, but I don't see any reason to believe that BSD inherently couldn't continue to be adapted and kept up-to-date.

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  4. Checkpoint replacement by Anonymous+Struct · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We have a handful of checkpoint firewalls deployed using stateful failover. It's one of those features you tend to only get after you pay a lot of money to somebody. This means one less reason to be paying thousands a year for checkpoint software subscriptions and nokia support. Maybe it's about time to look at replacing those fellas.

  5. THEO DE RAADT'S NOT A BAD GUY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    considering he's canadian.

  6. Re:With each passing release by CoolGopher · · Score: 1

    Well that was a cleverly disguised "BSD is dying" post! :)

  7. THEO DE RAADT--UNDER RATED JEENUS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I THINK SO, CERTAINLY.
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  8. THEO DE RAADT--SELF RATED JESUS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Only Theo can save us!!!!!

  9. Re:With each passing release by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    GreymatterBSD-3003 - The operating system of choice for the human bains.

  10. Re:With each passing release by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    insert joke about garbage collection here...