"Sioux C. Queue" <[email protected]> writes: > The FAQ at OpenSUSE is a fine document. On the page > www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/tables.html I found this "or the self keyword". On > the > page www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/filter.html I found this "table <firewall> const > { > self }". And finally, I think, at www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/nat.html there's > this > "The word self will appear if the state is floating". All of which are nice. > What exactly is "self"? The computer has two NICs, which one is "self"? Is > it > context dependent? Along that same line, where can I find a list, with a > definition, of "keywords" for IP Filter? They're mentioned a lot. > > Any and all help would be appreciated.
Your references to OpenSUSE and IP Filter had me a bit confused. In PF configuration, the keyword 'self' expands to all addresses assigned to all interfaces on the host (as a man pf.conf and search for self would have told you). - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
