On: DragonFly BSD 4.2 released

[protomyth]

"Eventhough I am not particularly fond of IPFW's syntax and prefer PF it's nice to see that a good SMP friendly firewall is in the works."

OpenBSD is slowly working to make PF SMP friendly: http://quigon.bsws.de/papers/2015/asiabsdcon/mgp00033.html

[bch → protomyth]

So is NetBSD[0]... exciting times in *BSD-land...

[0] http://www.netbsd.org/~rmind/npf/

[feld → bch]

npf is not pf, if that's what you're implying (can't tell?)

[bch → feld]

ah no -- I was only talking about multiprocessor-ifying packet management.

edit: s/package management/packet management/

[feld → bch]

oh, ok, yes -- this is getting traction in almost every project. It's nice to see this won't be a bottleneck.