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Solaris Admins: For A Glimpse Of Your Networking Future, Install OpenBSD

Contributed by tbert on from the like a boome-boomerang dept.

Undeadly's very own Peter Hansteen has written up some PF-on-Solaris-related email chatter:

Roughly a week ago, on April 5th, 2015, parts of Oracle's roadmap for upcoming releases of their Solaris operating system was leaked in a message to the public OpenBSD tech developer mailing list. This is notable for several reasons, one is that Solaris, then owned and developed by (the now defunct) Sun Microsystems, was the original development platform for Darren Reed's IP Filter, more commonly known as IPF, which in turn was the software PF was designed to replace.

As they say, read the whole thing!

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  1. By Denis (90.4.225.146) on

    Will Oracle donate to the project ?

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    1. By rjc (rjc) on

      > Will Oracle donate to the project ?

      Sure, exactly in the same way they've been doing for OpenSSH.

      While we're at it, they will also re-open ZFS development - this time using the ISC license. All of that because of their great commitment to open source/free software.

      Wake up and smell the coffee!

    2. By Anonymous Coward (188.138.1.229) on

      > Will Oracle donate to the project ?

      Like they did not for OpenSSH?

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      1. By Ralph Siegler (ralphsiegler) on http://www.rsiegler.org

        > > Will Oracle donate to the project ?
        >
        > Like they did not for OpenSSH?

        You are claiming OpenBSD has never benefited from or used Oracle (Sun acquired) things?

    3. By sthen (2001:4b10:1002:cc05:5566:450e:80c1:17c4) on

      > Will Oracle donate to the project ?

      They have at least donated some bug fixes and nice words, this doesn't get the bills paid but at least it's a lot better than some other project I could mention that wouldn't exist without PF.

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      1. By Anonymous Coward (80.171.32.52) on

        > > Will Oracle donate to the project ?
        >
        > They have at least donated some bug fixes and nice words, this doesn't get the bills paid but at least it's a lot better than some other project I could mention that wouldn't exist without PF.

        The one that even has "pf" in its Name and bows over to anyone who ever remotely touched pf in the BSD they're based on, without the slightest mention of where all that code comes from?

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        1. By Anonymous Coward (192.245.43.102) on

          > > > Will Oracle donate to the project ?
          > >
          > > They have at least donated some bug fixes and nice words, this doesn't get the bills paid but at least it's a lot better than some other project I could mention that wouldn't exist without PF.
          >
          > The one that even has "pf" in its Name and bows over to anyone who ever remotely touched pf in the BSD they're based on, without the slightest mention of where all that code comes from?

          You mean the one that conflagrated the spirit of the BSD license by closing the build tree until you signed a disclaimer/waiver to any/all rights to use the code conjunctively with a name remotely related to 'pf', all the while not claiming theirs was a license violation -- that one?

    4. By Ilyas Bakirov (195.189.28.74) on

      > Will Oracle donate to the project ?
      Not money donation, bu might be donation in kind of found bugs and patches

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