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		walterbell on Nov 28, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenBSD on PC Engines APU2 Are there differences in firewall features, or is OS-level security posture the main difference?

eladx on Nov 28, 2016 [–]

One major drawback to OpenBSD's pf, at least from a research perspective, is its lack for extensibility. Both FreeBSD and Linux offer extensions that can come in very handy, for example a BPF matcher for packets as opposed to regular rules.

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