rdr, queues, tags and block policy

2005-09-20 Thread Stanislaw Halik
hello, i have a problem with rdr: i have a default block policy, i can recognize incoming rdr packets by tags given to them in 'rdr' line, but i don't know about any way to spot replies to these rdr requests. the whole problem is that i want to use if-bound states, because i need to limit both

Re: Logging dropped states (max-src-states)

2005-09-25 Thread Stanislaw Halik
Jeff Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a straightforward way to log these disallowed states? Or perhaps a way to log which IPs have hit this ceiling, and when, and for how long? it just doesn't match a rule when it hits the limit, ie. matches the 'block' rule, if you have it. use

Re: Problem with altq cbq queuing.. please assist?

2005-10-20 Thread Stanislaw Halik
Travis H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Queuing doesn't make sense inbound anyway; once you've received the packet, it has already consumed your bandwidth, and thus queuing won't change anything. queueing could delay ACK reply being sent and then whole connection would get throttled. it works

synproxy rule not matching any packets after upgrade from FreeBSD 5.4-R to 6.0-R

2005-11-06 Thread Stanislaw Halik
hello, i'm having a strange problem with my pf setup. i've upgraded my FreeBSD router from 5.4-R to 6.0-R and rules, which were previously working as normal, stopped functioning. i had a rule like that: pass in quick on rl0 inet proto tcp from any to 83.16.236.178 port = ssh flags S/SA

Re: Classifying based on packet size (possible feature request)

2005-11-24 Thread Stanislaw Halik
Terje Elde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's also another issue. I (and I'm assuming others) would like ssh to have a high priority, to ensure low latency when working against remote servers, but if you have a delicate QoS setup, using ssh for file transfer will use the same ports, and to a

idea about non-stateful firewalling and queues

2005-12-18 Thread Stanislaw Halik
hello, sometimes it's not the best to use stateful firewalling, e.g. when serving a lot of clients with public, routable addresses. because of how putting data into queues now work, for queueing clients' bandwidth, one has to specify separate firewall lines for every queue used. pf manual

Re: PF inadequacy: queue download

2006-04-29 Thread Stanislaw Halik
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006, Daniel Hartmeier wrote: I know this is possible because IPFW with dummynet doesn't have any problems. If everyone loves PF because of its elegance why can't it do something as simple as queue download traffic?

Re: pf.conf defaults for options

2006-05-06 Thread Stanislaw Halik
On Fri, May 05, 2006, Gustavo A. Baratto wrote: Is there any easy way to find out what the defaults are for the options? Things like timeout, limit, debug, etc have no default values explicited in man page for pf.conf (openbsd 3.9) timeouts: # pfctl -st -- sh pgpUuglIYCYb7.pgp Description:

synproxy and state limits

2006-12-03 Thread Stanislaw Halik
Hello, I'm curious how synproxy affects limits of state entries. In one particular case, a host might be synflooded and a limit of state entries would be placed. Would the limit only affect states passing synproxy or all, even those created by a dumb synflood attack? -- Unix stuff ::

Re: deadman's pf rule editor - never lock yourself out again

2006-12-12 Thread Stanislaw Halik
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006, Travis H. wrote: http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/deadman/ Note that you shouldn't kill state, because then you won't be able to hit return and the script will probably exit due to a HUP. I'll think about how to fix that for the next rev. You don't need to think

Re: New Feature(s) Ideas

2006-12-24 Thread Stanislaw Halik
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006, Rob wrote: It seems that the memory limitations related to the current table implementation are due to the fact that all the records are stored in memory [...] The second more outlandish feature I call The Decider which would be similar to read only tables but would