Re: pf adaptive syncookie

2020-12-19 Thread mabi
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, December 18, 2020 6:13 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > And if it's anything like when I try it, you'll see some TCP connections > failing when it is active too. Not everything fails. but e.g. if I have > "set syncookies always" on a router, and run "ftp

Re: pf adaptive syncookie

2020-12-18 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2020-12-18, mabi wrote: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Friday, December 18, 2020 10:48 AM, Stuart Henderson > wrote: > >> It's something like "what % of max allowed states is half-open tcp". >> Watch out as there are some bugs in this area, definitely thewith >> accounting of

Re: pf adaptive syncookie

2020-12-18 Thread mabi
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, December 18, 2020 10:48 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > It's something like "what % of max allowed states is half-open tcp". > Watch out as there are some bugs in this area, definitely thewith > accounting of half-open connections can be wildly off

pf adaptive syncookie

2020-12-18 Thread mabi
Hi, I see quite some syn flood packets on my OpenBSD firewall filling up the state table for nothing. So I thought let's try the pf's adaptive syncookies. I am just not quite sure what the percentage used by start and stop relate to. In the pf.conf man page the following is written: "pf will

Re: pf adaptive syncookie

2020-12-18 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2020-12-18, mabi wrote: > Hi, > > I see quite some syn flood packets on my OpenBSD firewall filling up the > state table for nothing. So I thought let's try the pf's adaptive syncookies. > I am just not quite sure what the percentage used by start and stop relate to. > > In the pf.conf man