D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> So why would packets continue to come in for 2.5 hours?  My guess is
> that the hacker is keeping the connection open and attacking over it
> for 2.5 hours.  Does the packet filter not apply to existing
> connections?  Is there some way to change that behaviour?

Yes, that's how stateful firewalls work. Existing states don't evaluate the
ruleset. You probably want to look into pfctl -k.

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