Hi Rich,

You are right.  I looked at a fresh PF install, and the FORWARD is 
empty.  The FORWARD on our devel box mislead me, there is a 
related/establish line in there... not sure why.

Then, yes, we need to add the forward lines :)

On 12-03-12 11:22 AM, Rich Graves wrote:
>> I don't think it is necessary to add those in the FORWARD.  There is the
>> "accept any any RELATED, ESTABLISHED" line in there, we should be OK
>> with it... Even for UDP.  I think iptables is able to keep track of the
>> UDP src/dst ip/port and recognized a response.
>
> It's necessary on my box. I'll show you the next time you're on.
>
> I bet that you're looking at a line included by %%filter_forward_inline%%. 
> That's only present with inline enforcement, not vlan.
>
> As shipped by RedHat, the default is:
>
> :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
> :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
> :RH-Firewall-1-INPUT - [0:0]
> -A INPUT -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
> -A FORWARD -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
>
> ...so FORWARD uses the same rules as INPUT. But on my RHEL6 box running PF 
> 3.2, conf/iptables.conf does:
>
> :INPUT DROP [0:0]
> :FORWARD DROP [0:0]
> :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
> %%filter_forward_inline%%
>
> FORWARD doesn't incorporate INPUT. As it shouldn't, because you probably 
> don't want the captive portal port to be forwardable off-host.
>
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