Bsd Now

We're back again! On this week's packed show, we've got one of the biggest tutorials we've done in a while. It's an in-depth look at PF, OpenBSD's firewall, with some practical examples and different use cases. We'll also be talking to Peter Hansteen about the new edition of "The Book of PF." Of course, we've got news and answers to your emails too, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines ALTQ removed from PF (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140419151959) Kicking off our big PF episode... The classic packet queueing system, ALTQ, was recently removed from OpenBSD -current There will be a transitional phase between 5.5 and 5.6 where you can still use it by replacing the "queue" keyword with "oldqueue" in your pf.conf As of 5.6, due about six months from now, you'll have to change your ruleset to the new syntax if you're using it for bandwidth shaping After more than ten years, bandwidth queueing has matured quite a bit and we can finally put ALTQ to rest, in