[OpenIndiana-discuss] Community interest in illumos PF port?

[Adam Števko]

Hello,

We promised to send a reply once we gathered some data, so here it is.

From what alanc told us Oracle spent well over 2 engineer years working on their port. This would
require high amount of money for a successfull crowdsourcing campaign.

27 people including us (Adam and Jorge) responded that we would like to see pf ported to illumos.
However, all of us were individuals without a backing company to hack with some serious amount of funds.

Based on this fact, we conclude that the crowdsourcing campaign would fail.

Regards

Adam and Jorge

> On May 13, 2016, at 7:03 PM, Nikola M <minikola at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 05/13/16 06:57 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> On 05/13/16 09:32 AM, Nikola M wrote:
>>> On 05/13/16 06:14 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Note: Manual intervention will be required to ensure PF rules implement the
>>>> desired network policy."
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks much Alanc. Was looking for something like that page.
>>> 
>>> Does that mean that might happen inside 11.x as i see it mentions , so inside
>>> S11 lifetime in one of the updates.
>>> 
>>> As interesting as it is, it would surely need a separate project at illumos and
>>> see no direct connection with illumos implementing it except, it is nice to have
>>> it.
>> 
>> The page doesn't specify exact releases to leave our options open, but the
>> current plan is to have both IPfilter & PF in 11.x releases for a transition
>> period, and then drop IPfilter in 12.0.  As with all software plans, they're
>> subject to change as we develop the code.
> 
> That's what I was thinking by looking at that page also.
> Thanks Alanc!
> 
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