On 2012-05-26, Jan Stary <[email protected]> wrote:
> The "Passing Traffic" example at
> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/filter.html
> doesn't seem to be completely accurate.
>
>       # Pass traffic in on dc0 from the local network, 192.168.0.0/24,
>       # to the OpenBSD machine's IP address 192.168.0.1. Also, pass the
>       # return traffic out on dc0.
>       pass in  on dc0 from 192.168.0.0/24 to 192.168.0.1
>       pass out on dc0 from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.0/24
>
> It's the "return" that bugs me: the first rule alone
> makes the _return_ traffic be passed. The second
> rule allows traffic that originates (creates state)
> on the way out. Right?
>
>

Probably an incomplete conversion of the faq when the default was changed
to stateful. If someone wants to carefully go over faq/pf/ (or at least going
over one whole page rather than just parts of a page), check/update things
and send a diff, that would be very nice and there's a good chance it would
get committed..

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