PF (firewall)
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PF (Packet Filter, also written pf) is a BSD licensed stateful packet filter, a central piece of software for firewalling. It is comparable to netfilter (iptables), ipfw, and ipfilter.
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Original author(s) | Daniel Hartmeier |
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Developer(s) | The OpenBSD Project |
Initial release | 1 December 2001; 22 years ago (2001-12-01) |
Repository | |
Written in | C |
Operating system | OpenBSD |
Type | Packet filtering |
License | BSD license |
Website | www |
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PF was developed for OpenBSD, but has been ported to many other operating systems.