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Date:      Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:23:37 +0100
From:      Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
To:        freebsd-pf@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to determine "hits" on rules
Message-ID:  <200501151823.45078.max@love2party.net>
In-Reply-To: <41E8B102.20706@forrie.com>
References:  <41E8B102.20706@forrie.com>

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On Saturday 15 January 2005 06:58, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> I'm migrating one of my systems to PF from IPFW.
>
> In so doing and planning, I've reviewed the manpages and some online
> literature.
>
> I've become dependent upon "ipfw -t" to determine hits on various spam
> rules I've implemented - some of them large lists of /24's.
>
> I've not been able to determine that there is an equivalent in PF -
> though I imagine there must be some method to accomplish this.
>
> I'd appreciate if someone could help point in the right direction.

On Wednesday 12 January 2005 17:13, I wrote:
> No, there is no such functionality.  In fact, we don't even store such da=
ta
> in the rules.  For rules that create state, you can check the output of
> "$pfctl -vvss" for the newest state for a certain rule.  For rules that do
> logging, you can check /var/log/pflog for the last packet logged.
>
> I don't really see the point in this information.  Why do you want to know
> this?  Can you explain a bit - it's certainly not difficult to implement.

In any case: "pfctl -vsr" will give you counters on each rule.

If you use a table to store the spammer-addresses, you might find: "pfctl=20
=2DvvTshow -t table_name" interesting.

Check: http://www.benzedrine.cx/relaydb.html for a step-by-step tutorial, h=
ow=20
to deal with spammers with the help of pf.  This might give you some ideas.

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