On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 05:40:16AM +0000, Anders N. wrote:
A> Hi. I've got a server running pf that has been displaying some odd (at least 
to me) behavior.
A> 
A> I use the "synproxy state"[1] option quite a few times in my config without 
any ill effects that I've noticed until now. I realized it was on every open 
port except for ssh, so I added it to my ssh line:
A> 
A> pass in on $ext_if proto tcp from any to $IP port 22 flags S/SA synproxy 
state
A> 
A> After doing so, scp/sftp/rsync have all slowed down to a crawl! I get ~1/4th 
the speed I usually do from the server with it enabled there. Remove it, speed 
goes back to normal. I'm using synproxy state with some other other services 
that send large amounts of data very quickly (http, torrents, etc) and none of 
them exhibit this slowdown, so I'm wondering why scp is so slow with it. Here's 
the rest of my pf.conf, if it matters:

This is because synproxy module doesn't know which TCP extensions does the
backend TCP stack supports, thus announces none to the remote peer.

Connection created via synproxy rule will not support neither window scaling,
nor SACK, nor timestamps. Obviously, this results in bad performance.


-- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.
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