On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Steve Yates <[email protected]> wrote:

> I understand it's ideal to have limiters on the sending end.  It's a long
> story but I'm trying to set them on the receiving end of an rsync copy.
>
> I understand in 2.2-2.3 one should have them on the LAN interface.  This
> is on 2.3.3_1.
>
> In this scenario the remote server is x.x.x.x and the LAN computer is
> 10.1.2.12:22, and we have a NAT rule forwarding port 2222 to 22.
>
> Firewall rule:
> IPv4 TCP/UDP    x.x.x.x         *       10.1.2.12       22 (SSH)
> Two limiters are set on in/out.
> This firewall rule shows zero traffic in or out.  No other firewall rules
> show traffic from * to LAN.
>
> Diagnostics/States shows:
> LAN     tcp     x.x.x.x:46098 -> 10.1.2.12:22 (and shows traffic)
>
> Is the rule+limiter not being applied because the port 2222 is NATted to
> 22?  Or because the NAT happens on the WAN side and the LAN rule isn't even
> used?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve Yates
> ITS, Inc.
>
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Steve,

Is this an ingress vs egress question?

http://pfsensesetup.com/egress-filtering-with-pfsense/

That is if you are trying to limit something 'in' you would need to put the
rule on the WAN side?
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