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

[Nikola M]

On 05/13/16 06:39 PM, Nikola M wrote:
> On 05/12/16 11:01 PM, Adam Števko wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Some of us love the Packet Filter (PF) from OpenBSD.
>>
>> It would be awesome to have this available on illumos as alternative 
>> to ipf.
>> We (sjorge and xenol) played around with the idea of a kickstarter. 
>> The budget required for that would probably be much more than what we 
>> can collect.
>>
>> But not trying is not a winning move. Is there any other interest in 
>> this from anyone in the illumos community?
>>
>
> That would need for it to be implemented also inside zones and to be 
> drop-in replacement for ipfilter. ipfilter might stay there maybe as 
> an alternative if someone wants to use it still , with something 
> similar like "firewall" package that points to new default.
>
> One thing needed would be an Openindiana funds account (possibly 
> managed by Entic.net to 

I am not sure why I repeatedly forget that OI's main sponsor for hosting 
and build machines and everything for all these years is Evercity.co.uk ,
but I am very glad i can fix this error of mine. Thanks Evercity!

> avoid any costs for it or something) and at least one funding officer 
> that would make a list about spendings and at least 2 persons in 
> spending decision board.
>
> Question of having an account somewhere, anywhere for Openindiana was 
> pulled no so long ago, too, when several people asked weither OI has a 
> way of contributing money in general for OI needs and funding 
> development, e.g. contributing also with money and not only with 
> testing, using, advocacy, building and coding.
>