On 2011 Aug 10 (Wed) at 22:08:25 +0900 (+0900), Ryan McBride wrote:
:On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 02:53:02PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
:> * Ryan McBride <[email protected]> [2011-08-10 14:49]:
:> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 01:07:28PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
:> > > this is indeed the way it was supposed to work.
:> > 
:> > I dissagree. This is not at all what my understanding was of how it was
:> > supposed to work. You'd have to talk to dhartmei about his original
:> > intent, but as far as I recall the current behaviour was a conscious
:> > decision at least when I implemented 'max-src-conn' and
:> > 'max-src-states'. I'll admit that the manpage is wrong, though.
:> 
:> the manpage admits what the intent was, really - I remember this
:> pretty well.
:
:The incorrect manpage language is new. It used to (correctly) say the 
:following:
:
:   "When this limit is reached, further packets that would create
:    state are dropped, until existing states time out."
:

This feels wrong to me.  When specifying it in the rule line, I would
expect it to matter when pf checks to see if the rule applies.


:Until "some people" *cough* decided to revise it:
:
:---------------------------------------------------------
:CVSROOT:        /cvs
:Module name:    src
:Changes by:     [email protected]     2007/11/09 08:54:53
:
:Modified files:
:        share/man/man5 : pf.conf.5
:
:Log message:
:when "max <number>" is exceeded, packets are not dropped - rather they
:fail to match;
:
:from Doichin Dokov
:diff from henning and myself
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:

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