> I was wondering why nobody has ever created a shell for pf so that you > could manipulate it in a way similar to JunOS instead of editing > pf.conf. Also show / monitor commands. Hierarchical edit mode, stuff > like that.
Because pf does not follow the configuration model of a switch or router, or other such device, which have much simpler configuration. pf is capable of doing things *much much more complex*. If you spent 1 hour trying to build what you wonder about, rather than writing such a mail, you would begin to understand the problem.

