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The Grand Unified Flow Cache

Posted Aug 10, 2006 3:08 UTC (Thu) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)
Parent article: The Grand Unified Flow Cache

From the sound of things, this could result in a set of filtering tools that (at least externally)
would look a bit more like OpenBSD's pf.

Since pf is about the only thing in OpenBSD which I think they did better than in Linux, this
would be very welcome for my favorite OS kernel.

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Posted Aug 23, 2006 8:10 UTC (Wed) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624) [Link]

Rusty has a post about pf versus iptables on his blog now, which sheds some light on his thoughts.