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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/pitrh/statuses/117432389651060301">Peter N. M. Hansteen (pitrh@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Oct-2026 23:52:22 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@pitrh" title="pitrh@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/38643-48-20240726212550.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Peter N. M. Hansteen" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Peter N. M. Hansteen</a></section><article><p>In a discussion on LinkedIn somebody opined that PF is "an evolved fork" of IPF.</p><p>My as-polite-as-possible correction to that was, </p><p>"$poster, It's not a fork. </p><p>Rather, an independent implementation that was initially tweaked so OpenBSD kept a mostly compatible configuration syntax.</p><p>ipf was removed <a href="https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&amp;m=99118909527873&amp;w=2" rel="nofollow">https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&amp;m=99118909527873&amp;w=2</a> and the initial PF import happened later <a href="https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&amp;m=99341215821296&amp;w=2" rel="nofollow">https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&amp;m=99341215821296&amp;w=2</a> (with lots of commits following)."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pf" rel="tag">#pf</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/packetfilter" rel="tag">#packetfilter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/networking" rel="tag">#networking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openbsd" rel="tag">#openbsd</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freebsd" rel="tag">#freebsd</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/6750710#notice-13272862">In conversation</a><time datetime="2026-10-13T23:52:22+09:00" title="Tuesday, 13-Oct-2026 23:52:22 JST">about 2 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@pitrh/117432389651060301" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@pitrh/117432389651060301">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/6495120">Untitled attachment</a></label><br></li><li><article><header><div>No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.</div><h5><a href="https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&amp;m=99118909527873&amp;w=2">'CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src' - MARC</a></h5><div></div></header><div></div><footer></footer></article></li><li><article><header><div>No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.</div><h5><a href="https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&amp;m=99341215821296&amp;w=2">'CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src' - MARC</a></h5><div></div></header><div></div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Peter N. M. Hansteen (pitrh@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Oct-2026 23:52:22 JST Peter N. M. Hansteen
In a discussion on LinkedIn somebody opined that PF is "an evolved fork" of IPF.
My as-polite-as-possible correction to that was,
"$poster, It's not a fork.
Rather, an independent implementation that was initially tweaked so OpenBSD kept a mostly compatible configuration syntax.
ipf was removed https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=99118909527873&w=2 and the initial PF import happened later https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=99341215821296&w=2 (with lots of commits following)."
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