If memory serves me right, Manuel Kasper wrote:
> Just so you all know I'm not dead or completely immersed in my studies: 
> I have just succeeded in converting m0n0wall to FreeBSD 4.9. Sounds 
> easy, but due to the countless patches and tweaks required (not to 
> mention the various platforms that each need different kernels and 
> bootloaders), it isn't all that easy. :)

Considering that we only released FreeBSD 4.9 less than 48 hours ago,
I'm pretty impressed by this.  :-)

> The next things I'll tackle are finally integrating Petr Verner's 
> more-advanced advanced outbound NAT [tm] ;) patch 

I personally don't use NAT but I admit the name of this has me 
intriuged.  :-)

> as well as Bruce A. 
> Mah's filtering bridge patches (did I make any further promises?). 
> Bruce has figured out the cause of the problem that made me use 
> ng_bridge instead of BRIDGE in the first place, so we're now ready to 
> throw out ng_bridge altogether.

Yay!

For the curious, ARP to unnumbered bridge interfaces doesn't work if
bridge(4) is loaded as a module, but it works OK if bridge(4) is
compiled into the kernel.  As far as I can tell, it's a long-standing
bug in FreeBSD's networking stack.  I understand the problem but I'm not
sure how to fix it.

> Since filtered bridging is quite an 
> advanced feature, there will probably be a knob on the advanced setup 
> page to enable it. Yes, Bruce, I reconsidered enabling it by default 
> and decided against it. :)

Heh.  Actually I'm so happy I won't have to do the
unpack-everything-apply-patches-repack-everything dance with every new
m0n0wall release I don't care if you have a knob or not.  :-)

> Besides, an official m0n0wall image for a new platform will be 
> released: the Wireless Router Application Platform from PC Engines 
> (www.pcengines.ch)!

Very interesting!

Thanks as always for great software...

Bruce.