[nycbug-talk] home grown firewall solutions ...

[Fabian Keil]

alex at pilosoft.com wrote:

> c) it is, however, nontrivial to do this with pf 'keep state', if
> that's what you want. if you want to keep state, you need lots of CPU
> power and/or memory and/or hackery.

Are you sure this is true for PF?

Quote from http://kerneltrap.org/node/477:

|JA: How does pf performance compare to other stateful packet filters?
|
|Daniel Hartmeier: In the benchmarks I did and based on the feedback
|from people who compared pf with other filters on production machines,
|very well, often significantly better. In particular, we found that
|keeping state on all connections scales well and is faster than
|stateless rule evaluation.

Fabian
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