North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Merits of purpose-built (appliance) vs. FreeBSD+ipfw firewalls
[Mail-Followup-To points to the pf list] Tony Kapela wrote/schrieb/scripsit: > Forget all the ARP/ifconfig/heartbeat fudgery that'd be required to > acheive failover on *bsd with ipf/pf -- just finding a simple way to > move said state table from host to host seems interesting and > challenging. OpenBSD's pf is moving there. -current now has the pfsync pseudo- interface that exposes changes to the state table as they happen. A daemon to make use of that for said purpose is expected after the 3.3 release. 'Rumor' says, a non patent-emcumbered vrrp-like mechanism will be available as well. -Stefan -- junior guru SP666-RIPE [email protected]{IRC,SILC}
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