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@@ -487,6 +487,13 @@ device musycc # LMC/SBE LMC1504 quad T1/E1
# The `ef' device provides support for multiple ethernet frame types
# specified via ETHER_* options. See ef(4) for details.
#
+# The pf packet filter consists of three devices:
+# The `pf' device provides /dev/pf and the firewall code itself.
+# The `pflog' device provides the pflog0 interface which logs packets.
+# The `pfsync' device provides the pfsync0 interface used for
+# synchronization of firewall state tables (over the net).
+# Requires option PFIL_HOOKS and (when used as a module) option RANDOM_IP_ID
+#
# The PPP_BSDCOMP option enables support for compress(1) style entire
# packet compression, the PPP_DEFLATE is for zlib/gzip style compression.
# PPP_FILTER enables code for filtering the ppp data stream and selecting
@@ -507,6 +514,9 @@ device tap #Virtual Ethernet driver
device tun #Tunnel driver (ppp(8), nos-tun(8))
device sl #Serial Line IP
device gre #IP over IP tunneling
+device pf #PF OpenBSD packet-filter firewall
+device pflog #logging support interface for PF
+device pfsync #synchronization interface for PF
device ppp #Point-to-point protocol
options PPP_BSDCOMP #PPP BSD-compress support
options PPP_DEFLATE #PPP zlib/deflate/gzip support
@@ -561,7 +571,7 @@ device stf #6to4 IPv6 over IPv4 encapsulation
#
# PFIL_HOOKS enables an abtraction layer which is meant to be used in
# network code where filtering is required. See the pfil(9) man page.
-# This option is required by the IPFILTER option.
+# This option is required by the IPFILTER option and the PF device.
#
# TCPDEBUG enables code which keeps traces of the TCP state machine
# for sockets with the SO_DEBUG option set, which can then be examined
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