OpenBSD Packet Filter Changes Syntax Language

An anonymous reader writes "As seen on this article on the OpenBSDJournal, Henning, one of PF main contribuitors writes: 'After much discussion we made a hard decision: we will change pf syntax from English to German.' So, what are the implications of this? And why the change? Read on."

Does this mean

[leviramsey]

...I'll have to say "Scheisse!" when I ficken up my firewall's configuration?

Re:Does this mean

[Mitchell Mebane]

As a proud student of the German language, I qould like to point out that the proper way of writing that is Scheiße.

Re:Does this mean

[usotsuki]

Depends. Some people are trying to get others to write the ß as ss.

-uso.
I didn't try to, but somehow I managed to get a fr1st ps0t on another topic *g*

Oh my!

[bplipschitz]

Sorry,

Ach du lieber!

Exschuldigen Sie. . .

Help me here...

[Polo]

But what would be the new syntax for filtering on the new ipv4 security bit?

Re:Help me here...

[ctucker]

I understand that one of the big reasons for this change is that a lot of the German developers were dissatisfied with the "keep state" modifier. The new pf interrogates suspicious packets in an unspecified location on the motherboard, or maybe a foreign motherboard, where packets have fewer rights. In any case, for maximum security, change everything that says "keep state" to "Unterhaltpolizeizustand".

Re:Help me here...

[almeida]

Aha! Good question. The IPv4 security bit will not be implemented on OpenBSD because IPv4 support has been dropped [deadly.org]. Todd Fries says, "It is too hard to get IPv4 addresses, we're switching to IPv6 tomorrow."

(This post is a day late, of course, so just pretend it's still the 1st.)

Re:Help me here...

[chrisseaton]

No! Fools! This will be the new troll! Don't you realise what you're doing?

Re:*BSD is dying

[Synic]

how many times are you going to post that, dorkwad? get a life...

Re:Es ist ein Hoax!

[mirabilos]

I had a _hard_ time parsing this as AYBABTU, and
I'm a native speaker...

Get a life ;-)

Re:Es ist ein Hoax!

[bplipschitz]

--
Wie Sie Herren sind!

Ihre ganze Unterseite sind gehören uns. Sie sind auf der Weise zur Zerstörung. Sie haben keine Wahrscheinlichkeit zu überleben bilden Ihre Zeit.
--

Translation: All your Sudetenland belong to us.

IN SOVIET GERMANY

[yerricde]

In Soviet Germany, DDR [wikipedia.org] dances on YOU!

hmm german

[horcy]

kartoffel salat met bratwurst und pommes...

Logo in French

[dfgdfgdfg]

I remember in 3rd grade (1988 or so), we had computers that had the programming language Logo in french. It was "av" for "avance" instead of "fd" for "forward", etc...

Woohoo...

[divide overflow]

Man, it's like a Baghdad aircraft hangar in here...last one out turn out the lights.

At least now I know how to flush out german-speaking nerds.