pf is the OpenBSD Packet Filter, a feature-rich IP-layer firewall used on OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD, as well as in the pfSense open-source firewall appliance software.

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How to redirect a packet to localhost in pf?

I am trying to redirect packets that are going to internal network to localhost of firewall. I wrote this rule but it doesn't work. int_net = "{10.0.0.0/24}" ext_if = "{igb0}" int_if = "{igb1}" rdr ...
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How to filter TCP packets based on flags using Packet Filter

Well, I didn't know exactly how to ask this question, but I know that you can use the keyword flags to especify which flags you want to filter. According to the documentation of the Packet filter: ...
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How to run python script which required root privilage for execution in apache with mod_python at openbsd

I am trying to run python script in Apache 2.x with mod_python. I edited httpd.conf with publisher LoadModule python_module /usr/local/apache2/modules/mod_python.so <Directory ...
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freebsd pf.conf [closed]

Please, give me an advice of how to build firewall filter rules for PF in FreeBSD. There are many tutorials, however they are all different from each other, and I don't really have a clue how to do ...
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freebsd pf squid transparent

I have broken my brain dealing with this. Squid was built from ports /usr/ports/www/squid32 with PF_TP enabled. I have internet but strangely it bypasses squid. Obviously, squid logs are empty. I ...
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Altq/Pf trouble on OpenBSD

I'm having some trouble with pf/altq on OpenBSD but as I'm new to it I'm not sure if its because I'm misunderstanding how to use anchors, or if something is wrong with my system. I'm trying to add ...
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Reasonable rate limiting settings with PF firewall

I have the following settings in my pf.conf to dissuade abusive clients (I get a few a day that are obviously just scraping content indiscriminately and slow everything down): pass in on $ext_if ...
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Harvest netblocks of good MTAs from SPF for whitelisting [closed]

I'm configuring greylisting, and one of the things I would like to do is explicitly whitelist good MTAs of e.g. google.com, ebay.com, schwab.com, freebsd.org, uwaterloo.ca etc. It seems like with the ...
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Passing traffic to a service behind firewall

I am running nginx on port 8080, now I like to make it accessible from the internet, for that I open a port on my Router, next I add some rules to my PF, but a sniff from wireshark I see port ...
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blocking packets for a non established connection on freebsd pf

For a freebsd pf firewall; I want it to block packets for non established connections. For example , the attacker should not send Reset packets for an unknown not-yet-established connection. In Linux ...
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OpenBSD ftp-proxy behind NAT itself

Is it possible to change the PASV IP ftp-proxy of OpenBSD sends to clients, without changing the listen address of redirection control (-b <address>)? I have the following setup: FTP client ...
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Block Google requests to 16k using pf firewall

I'd like to block access to Google search using PF after the threshold of 17500 requests (connection established) in 24h, from a host running FreeBSD 9. What I came up with, after reading pf-faq is ...
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OS X 10.8: redirecting locally initiated ssh connections to localhost:22

I need to hack the OS X pf to redirect all ssh connections from an user to this machine. I want, when doing $ ssh google.com to get the same results as with $ ssh localhost ie a connection to ...
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freebsd network packet error

I have included netstat output on freebsd 8.0. Ierrs:944998977. pf works on a single core for all session table operations and under a dos flood attack it uses that core %100. What I want to learn ...
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OpenBSD pf 'match in all scrub (no-df)' causes HTTPS to be unreachable on mobile network

First of all: excuse me for my poor usage of the English language. For several years I'm experiencing problems with the 'match in all scrub (no-df)' rule in pf. I can't find out what's happening ...
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Route ssh traffic based on hostname using FreeBSD/pf?

I have a proxy/firewall machine running FreeBSD 9, using PF to route and filter traffic as needed. Now I'm setting up a git server, which runs over ssh, but I'm already using port 22 for ssh. I would ...
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Can I create a pf rule involving MAC address instead of IP?

The title is self explanatory. I want to create rules in pf running on OpenBSD 4.9 for perticular MAC address, something like pass in on eth0 from mac 00:04:34:5f:34:33 to mac 34:32:34:06:5e:22 I ...
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Create a rule using shell in fresh pfSense installation to open up WAN access to WebConfigurator

I am in a situation where I require WAN access to be opened up to the WebConfigurator through pfSense because I do not have another node connected to the same network to access WebConfigurator from ...
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OpenBSD pf - implementing the equivalent of an iptables DNAT

Short version Server A (OpenBSD 4.7) connects to server B (Windows). IP of server B changes. Server A should be able to connect to server B to both the old and new IP. We cannot configure multiple ...
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pfSense to ASA L2L VPN - infrequent, short-lasting, but consistent disconnections

Has anyone here been able to specify a stable configuration for the L2L VPN between an ASA device and pfSense 2.0.1? I am using the most accomodating settings on the ASA side (DefaultL2LGroup with ...
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FreeBSD - monitor aggregate bandwidth of individual local network devices

I'm looking for ways to monitor the Internet usage - the total amount of data transferred - of individual devices on my network. I'm using FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE with pf for filtering and NAT. I'm not ...
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Bypassing SQUID on freebsd with PF

I have PF+SQUID31 on FREEBSD-9.0, and I want to have some hosts(aka goodguys) to bypass the proxy, so that torrents are not logged. Also, I am not sure about transparent. It means that I dont have to ...
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OpenBsd 5 port forwarding

I'm trying to configure pf port forwarding on OpenBSD 5.0 The firewall machine has two nics: em0: 192.168.200.3 vic0: 192.65.214.136 I would like to forward all packets comming into ...
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How to configure something like “Reflexive ACL” on OpenBSD?

My U-Verse modem has something called "Reflexive ACL" described as Reflexive ACL: When IPv6 is enabled, you can enable Reflexive Access Control Lists to deny inbound IPv6 traffic unless this ...
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Order of application of NAT rules in pfSense 2

In pfSense 2.0, I have a bunch of WAN CARP Virtual IPs and a bunch of 1:1 NAT rules defined associating these IPs to LAN subnet hosts. If I set up Port Forwarding rules that forward from CARP IPs ...
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OpenBSD 5.0 pf with NAT & Port Forwarding

Port forwarding does not seem to work properly, incoming connections apparently are blocked. Is there something wrong with my pf.conf? # Performance limits set limit states 200000 set limit ...
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Is there an equivalent of LinuxIMQs in BSD?

Is there an equivalent of LinuxIMQs in BSD ? From linuximq.net: The imq device has two common usage cases: Ingress shaping: With linux only egress shaping is possible (except for the ingress ...
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Port-Forward for all IPs on an interface

I'm running a java-based web server as a non-privileged user. Therefore it listens on ports 8080 and 8443 instead of 80 and 443. Right now I'm using the following pf rules to forward the ports ...
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Default values of pf.conf set parameters

I want to learn default values of these parameters, I read the manual of pf.conf but couldn't find, could you help? set limit states set limit src-nodes set timeout tcp.first set timeout ...
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Slow upload speeds with pfsense virtual appliance

I have a pfSense virtual appliance set up in front of a Windows server. The pfSense appliance has been configured with two L2L IPSec VPN sites and not too much else. The appliance has two vNics which ...
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Getting per-ip traffic stats from PF

Is there a way to get per-ip traffic stats from PF on OpenBSD 4.9? pfctl can give me the total traffic (bytes) for a given label, and pfstats for a given interface, and pftop can give me a "live" view ...
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OpenBSD pf port forwarding multiple rules

I have a few dozen servers behind OpenBSD firewall with port forwarding. Most rules are very similar and differ only in IPs or sometimes in ports forwarded, so I want to compact them to remove ...
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Keep connection state with target machine in PF when reply comes from a different IP

I'm facing a challenge with my PF firewall on an OpenBSD machine. From a client (A) I'm connecting to a server (B) using a target ip (SRV-IP-1). The server is replying to my request, but sourcing the ...
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OpenBSD/FreeBSD Firewall w/ GUI that is compatible with Intel 82574L Gigabit LAN NICs

I recently purchased a server to run m0n0wall or pfSense but I've learned since then that both of these firewall products are based on versions of FreeBSD which weren't yet compatible with the NICs in ...
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How to check pf's queues?

I use FreeBSD and working with pf+ALTQ now. Something doesn't work and I need a tool to view what requests are marked and moved to a queue "queue_name" Need something like pftop but showing queues. ...
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PF rules and configuration to allow a local IP alias to NAT on FreeBSD?

Here's exact details of my configuration: Firewall/DNS Server: 192.168.2.1 (local lan) which routes out to the internet. <-- NOT UNDER MY CONTROL My FreeBSD Server: 192.168.2.23 (LAN) "Inside" ...
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using “include” like statement in pf.conf to include some parts from other files

I want to be able to include some parts of my pf.conf from other set of files. For example I will include "set timeout" vs like statements in another file. Using anchors and "load anchor from ...
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blocking packets larger then specific size with pf

Is there a way with pf to block specific type of packets larger than specific size?
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Provide IPv6 to network from OpenBSD firewall

I have an OpenBSD PF firewall that I have added a IPv6 tunnel to (using HE.net tunnelbroker). I can ping/traceroute IPv6 addresses from the firewall. Now I want to provide IPv6 services to the ...
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Disable ALTQ for internal network traffic

I currently have a FreeBSD 8.2 media server set up on my LAN that I use to stream my music from. I also have an SSH login that I use to do file transfers to and from this server remotely. I would ...
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FreeBSD machine not responding to first few packets of a stream

I have two machines running as reverse proxy caches/load balancers in front of a site I admin. Recently at peak times I've been seeing a problem where the first few packets from any stream of packets ...
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Using NTPD on OpenBSD to get time from Linux using portforwarding

This is a rehash of another question, now that I understand things a bit better. I have the following network set up: NTP 10.21.3.169 | \______________ | \ ...
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PF firewall rules help

I'm having a heck of a time creating a pf ruleset for FTP. What I'm trying to do is : Only allow $WHITELIST to connect to FTP port 21 Open ports 49152 - 65535 for Passive port range Can anyone ...
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mDNS on bridged OpenVPN network

I have openvpn running on a openbsd server that is behind a firewall, so it is a local member of the LAN. The openvpn is a bridge configuration. firewall internal 10.0.10.1 openvpn server ...
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Help me upgrade my pf.conf for OpenBSD 4.7

I'm planning on upgrading my OpenBSD to 4.7 (from 4.6) and as you may or may not know, they changed the syntax for pf.conf. This is the relevant portion from the upgrade guide: pf(4) NAT syntax ...
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A jail that is accessible from network without port forwarding

I am using FreeBSD 7.1 and on my server I have two different jails. One for database and second one for game server. What I need to know is if it is possible to assign game server's jail to public IP ...
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PF firewall issues with FTP inside FreeBSD jail

I have recently tried to set up jails on one of my FreeBSD servers, and I’m running into strange errors while trying to download FreeBSD packages via FTP. I have these rules in the PF firewall to ...
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Inaccurate bandwidth limiting in altq queues

I'm setting up an environment where I have one Linux server, one OpenBSD router and one Linux client and I want to be able to limit how much bandwidth the client should be able to use. I've been ...
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FreeBSD+PF+Passive Firewall=Frustration

I have a FreeBSD server that I'm trying to get FTP working on. If I disable pf everything works great. If I connect while pf is running I can login successfully-but as soon as I run an ls I get this: ...
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carp versus proxy arp

Currently I have a redundant pfSense firewall system set up for our corporate server farm. The main router IPs are sharing an IP address through Carp. Our two public /27 networks are assigned as ...

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