Re: pf/carp for redundant production use

2005-09-26 Thread j knight
Neil wrote: Hi everyone, Just chat with someone in #pf and found out that pf at the moment cannot maintain state on TCP connections from internal machine to external machine when network cable on master firewall's external interface is removed. Anyways, most connections are coming from

Re: pf/carp for redundant production use

2005-09-26 Thread Jason Dixon
On Sep 26, 2005, at 1:31 AM, Neil wrote: Hi Jason, I would like to try your #1 suggestion but unfortunately, I don't know where to start. What are the programs I need? What configuration? Is there any existing sample configuration on a link that I can follow? Thanks for explaining this

Re: pf/carp for redundant production use

2005-09-26 Thread Jason Dixon
On Sep 25, 2005, at 8:30 AM, Neil wrote: Yep, the same behavior when the master dies. The solution that the person in #pf told me is use routing but I don't know how to implement. He told me that it's an issue in pf's NAT. Bullshit. Ok, here is the layman's description of the problem and

Re: pf/carp for redundant production use

2005-09-26 Thread Neil
Hi Jason, I would like to try your #1 suggestion but unfortunately, I don't know where to start. What are the programs I need? What configuration? Is there any existing sample configuration on a link that I can follow? Thanks for explaining this in very detail. Neil Jason Dixon writes:

Re: pf/carp for redundant production use

2005-09-26 Thread Chad M Stewart
On Sep 25, 2005, at 9:39 PM, Jason Dixon wrote: On Sep 25, 2005, at 8:30 AM, Neil wrote: Yep, the same behavior when the master dies. The solution that the person in #pf told me is use routing but I don't know how to implement. He told me that it's an issue in pf's NAT. Bullshit. Ok,

Re: pf/carp for redundant production use

2005-09-26 Thread Jason Dixon
On Sep 26, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Chad M Stewart wrote: On Sep 25, 2005, at 9:39 PM, Jason Dixon wrote: On Sep 25, 2005, at 8:30 AM, Neil wrote: Yep, the same behavior when the master dies. The solution that the person in #pf told me is use routing but I don't know how to implement. He told

Re: pf/carp for redundant production use

2005-09-25 Thread Neil
Hi everyone, Just chat with someone in #pf and found out that pf at the moment cannot maintain state on TCP connections from internal machine to external machine when network cable on master firewall's external interface is removed. Anyways, most connections are coming from outside to inside

Re: pf/carp for redundant production use

2005-09-25 Thread Michiel van Baak
On 00:21, Sun 25 Sep 05, Neil wrote: Hi everyone, Just chat with someone in #pf and found out that pf at the moment cannot maintain state on TCP connections from internal machine to external machine when network cable on master firewall's external interface is removed. Anyways, most

Re: pf/carp for redundant production use

2005-09-23 Thread Neil
Hi Joel, I just created a new email post. :) Thanks, neil j knight writes: Neil wrote: Yup that did the fix for the inbound. Now, I tried connecting to an ssh server from the internal machine to the external machine running openssh and i disconnected the cable, however, the ssh

Re: pf/carp for redundant production use

2005-09-22 Thread j knight
Neil wrote: Ok guys. I will do it tonight once I reach home. I will also send my pf.conf file. Also, does it matter since I have different interfaces on FW1 and FW2? FW1, xl0, fxp0 and fxp1 FW2: rl0, fxp0 and ne3 You're using 'set state-policy if-bound' so yes, that does matter. Remove that

Re: pf/carp for redundant production use

2005-09-22 Thread Neil
Yup that did the fix for the inbound. Now, I tried connecting to an ssh server from the internal machine to the external machine running openssh and i disconnected the cable, however, the ssh session was not able to recover. What should I change in my pf.conf configuration. Thanks for the

Re: pf/carp for redundant production use

2005-09-21 Thread Neil
Hi guys, I got pf and carp working together. However, I have noticed that TCP oriented application doesn't get recover well when I disconnect a cable. I setup a netcat listener on a machine inside the network. Then I ran netcat from another machine outside the network. I was able to connect

Re: pf/carp for redundant production use

2005-09-21 Thread j knight
Neil wrote: Hi guys, I got pf and carp working together. However, I have noticed that TCP oriented application doesn't get recover well when I disconnect a cable. I setup a netcat listener on a machine inside the network. Then I ran netcat from another machine outside the network. I was able

Re: pf/carp for redundant production use

2005-09-21 Thread Matt Rowley
I got pf and carp working together. However, I have noticed that TCP oriented application doesn't get recover well when I disconnect a cable. I setup a netcat listener on a machine inside the network. Then I ran netcat from another machine outside the network. I was able to connect and was

Re: pf/carp for redundant production use

2005-09-21 Thread Neil
Ok guys. I will do it tonight once I reach home. I will also send my pf.conf file. Also, does it matter since I have different interfaces on FW1 and FW2? FW1, xl0, fxp0 and fxp1 FW2: rl0, fxp0 and ne3 Thanks guys! ;) Neil Matt Rowley writes: I got pf and carp working together.

Re: pf/carp for redundant production use

2005-09-21 Thread Neil
Hi everyone, Firewall 1 troubleshooting info can be found at http://restricted.dyndns.org/pffw1.txt Firewall 2 @ http://restricted.dyndns.org/pffw2.txt The links include: 1. ifconfig output pre/post cable removal 2. pfctl -s state pre/post cable removal 3. pf.conf configs of both firewall