RE: The best of both worlds “using mac filtering in pf”

2020-07-10 Thread l.m.v.breda
Hello, � Seeing the reactions, I think did not describe my problem good enough. So here a better problem description. � � An IPV6-device has many IPV6 addresses. Among them temporary addresses and autogenerated addresses. This partly because of privacy concerns. � So if an IPV6-device

Re: The best of both worlds “using mac filtering in pf”

2020-07-10 Thread Kristof Provost
On 10 Jul 2020, at 22:37, Ultima wrote: Hey Kristof, (It’s already possible to use pf on top of a bridge in bump-in-the-wire mode. Given the gotchas in that code I **strongly** recommend people don’t use that functionality.) Do you mind going into details on the gotchas or providing links?

Re: The best of both worlds “using mac filtering in pf”

2020-07-10 Thread Ultima
Hey Kristof, > (It’s already possible to use pf on top of a bridge in > bump-in-the-wire mode. Given the gotchas in that code I **strongly** > recommend people don’t use that functionality.) > > Do you mind going into details on the gotchas or providing links? Thanks and best regards, Richard

Re: The best of both worlds “using mac filtering in pf”

2020-07-10 Thread Ultima
Please go in detail about this issue on why you would need to filter layer 2. I see very little benefit to having the ability to filter on layer 2 except in some very special cases and IPv6 isn't one of them that I'm aware of. Best regards, Richard Gallamore On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 10:57 AM

Re: The best of both worlds “using mac filtering in pf”

2020-07-10 Thread Kristof Provost
On 10 Jul 2020, at 19:57, l.m.v.br...@xs4all.nl wrote: Hello, I am using pfSense, build on top of pf. And of course pfSense/pf is a terrific firewall, however the world is changing in the direction of IPV6 and that leads to new issues and related new requirements. One of the major issues is