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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
| commit | 253e67c8b3a72b3a4757fdbc5845297628db0a4a (patch) | |
| tree | adf53b66087aa30dfbf8bf391a1dadb044c3bf4d /static/netbsd/man7/npf.7 | |
| parent | a9157ce950dfe2fc30795d43b9d79b9d1bffc48b (diff) | |
docs: Added All NetBSD Manuals
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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man7/npf.7 b/static/netbsd/man7/npf.7 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1425cd7e --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man7/npf.7 @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: npf.7,v 1.7 2019/08/11 22:27:15 gutteridge Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2009-2014 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This material is based upon work partially supported by The +.\" NetBSD Foundation under a contract with Mindaugas Rasiukevicius. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. AND CONTRIBUTORS +.\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED +.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR +.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS +.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR +.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF +.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS +.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN +.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) +.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE +.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.Dd August 11, 2019 +.Dt NPF 7 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm NPF +.Nd NetBSD packet filter +.\" ----- +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm +is a layer 3 packet filter, supporting IPv4 and IPv6 as well as +layer 4 protocols such as TCP, UDP, and ICMP. +It was designed with a focus on high performance, scalability, and +modularity. +.\" ----- +.Sh FEATURES +.Nm +offers the traditional set of features provided by packet filters. +Some key features are: +.Bl -bullet -offset indent +.It +Stateful inspection (connection tracking). +.It +Network address translation (NAT). +This includes static (stateless) and dynamic (stateful) translation, +port translation, bi-directional NAT, etc. +.It +IPv6-to-IPv6 network prefix translation (NPTv6). +.It +Tables for efficient IP sets. +.It +Application Level Gateways (e.g., to support traceroute). +.It +Use of BPF with just-in-time (JIT) compilation. +.It +Rule procedures and a framework for +.Nm +extensions. +.It +Traffic normalisation (extension). +.It +Packet logging (extension). +.El +.Pp +For a full set of features and their description, see the +.Nm +documentation website and other manual pages. +.\" ----- +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr libnpf 3 , +.Xr bpf 4 , +.Xr bpfjit 4 , +.Xr npf.conf 5 , +.Xr npf-params 7 , +.Xr pcap-filter 7 , +.Xr npfctl 8 , +.Xr npfd 8 +.Pp +.Lk https://github.com/rmind/npf/ "NPF project page" +.Pp +.Lk http://rmind.github.io/npf/ "NPF documentation website" +.Sh HISTORY +.Nm +was written from scratch in 2009 and is distributed under the +2-clause BSD license. +It first appeared in +.Nx 6.0 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.Nm +was designed and implemented by +.An Mindaugas Rasiukevicius . |
