If I'm reading the man page correctly the rule only counts if it's the
one creating a state. Since the match rule won't be the deciding one
to generate a state or not I expect it will never actually count on
those statistics.

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Ted Unangst <ted.unan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am apparently not getting pf at a very simple level.  Here's my rule:
>
> match proto tcp from any to any port 80 label "web"
>
> Here's the output of pfctl -sr -v after visiting a few websites:
>
> match proto tcp from any to any port = www label "web"
>  [ Evaluations: 1398      Packets: 0         Bytes: 0           States: 0  
  ]
>  [ Inserted: uid 0 pid 931 State Creations: 0     ]
>
> I would expect that rule to match the packets to port 80 and make the
> counters go up, but they stay stuck at 0.  Why is that?

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