EuroBSDCon 2025

The NetBSD Packet Filter
2025-09-28 , Gray Hall

One of NetBSD's goal with network security is to upgrade NPF with lots of useful features and then be used as the primary packet filter. In this talk, As NetBSD's current primary maintainer of NPF, I will reveal the improvements I have added to NetBSD's NPF packet filter. I will also reveal Further improvements in relation to performance and the direction of the project to reaching completion.

Emmanuel is a recent computer science graduate from Ghana. He is a NetBSD developer and the current maintainer of NetBSD's firewall. He is super passionate about system development and security. He hunts code vulnerabilities in his free times.