Dave C. wrote:
>>It doesn't look like we can do this anytime soon, because FreeBSD 5.2
>>is very far from being as stable as 4.9, as I recently had to find
>>out again. Besides, it's also still a good deal slower. 5.x doesn't
> 
> 
> May I ask what are the problems related to 5.2 ? 
> If I understand correctly, ipfw and dummynet should be quite similar, 
> and the same should be true for the other userspace processes.
> 
> I'm asking because I was going to start a personal port to 5.2
> to see how well it could perform, but perhaps I should ask who
> has done it already.

I'm certainly much more interested in getting PF running on m0n0wall. 
It would seem to cover more bases in terms of strong packet filtering.