Hopefully someone can give me some insight here...

Here is a very brief background:

I have an vanilla OpenBSD 3.1 bridging firewall setup with
three interfaces. The two bridge interfaces do not have an IP
address but the third does.

There is a machine behind my bridge that I selectively
allow SSH access via the bridge's PF rules.

Here is what happened today:
My supervisor sent me e-mail saying that she cannot ssh to
the internal SSH machine from her home. I see that her IP
address has changed so I adjust the pf rules accordingly
and reload them.

However, based on the SSH logs, I see that she's been
connecting with the changed IP address since September 1st!
The changed IP address was not referenced anywhere in my
pf.conf file until after I made my changes today.

I quickly tried to ssh to that machine from a different IP
address as a test and it is properly blocked.

Something doesn't seem right. Does anyone have an idea what
happened? I am willing to test this out further with some
guidance although I don't know if I can repeat this (since
in my test, I was properly blocked from connecting).

Andy

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