Juniper networks have vetoed. So the secret is out. JunoOS is actually using IPF.
I know something like that happened (and I knew Juniper *was* using IPF), but I had the impression that it happened long ago (I couldn't find any recent discussion on the subject). Anyway, IPFilter in base is quite old, doesn't support many of the new fetures, the newest versions are GPLed (I think the version in base is the last non-GPLed release) and the latest release happened 3 years ago.... I can't see what bennefit Juniper can have in keeping it vs migrating to something else. And if we really want to have 3 firewalls in base Instead of IPF we can have IPFW-JIT (one of the GSOC projects this year) or port NetBSD's NPF.
I just tried recently when 7.0 was released. I am not impressed at all neither with the installer nor with NetBSD. Just as a side note it would take so much work to adopt that installer to installations to ZFS pools that practically mean writing things from scratch.
That was just a joke, I doubt anyone will want to go through the trouble of rewriting the installer. I just like how it looks like Windows' Blue Screen Of Death.
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