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The Book of PF, 4th edition

by 0x54MUR41 on 2/1/2026, 7:50:51 AM

https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition

Comments

by: INTPenis

It&#x27;s a great book, I used to have some edition of it and it helped me a lot professionally with setting up firewalls, load balancing, traffic shaping and more.<p>I also had a book on Designing FreeBSD rootkits that was very educational.<p>Unfortunately I&#x27;ve given away all my books for more minimalistic living where I am instead dependent on digital information. Not sure how to feel about it.

2/1/2026, 10:07:58 AM


by: dhruv3006

Lot of admiration for no starch - your books are great !

2/1/2026, 8:57:07 AM


by: skywal_l

PF = Packet Filter

2/1/2026, 10:01:21 AM


by: gspr

I&#x27;d love something similarly scoped centered around nftables. Does anyone have a suggestion? I see No Starch has a Linux Firewall book, but it&#x27;s from 2008 and is thus iptables-based.

2/1/2026, 9:57:31 AM