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Date:      Thu, 15 May 2008 12:08:28 +1200
From:      "Mark Pagulayan" <m.pagulayan@auckland.ac.nz>
To:        "Tom Uffner" <tom@uffner.com>, "Kian Mohageri" <kian.mohageri@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-pf@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: FreeBSD PF 4.1 Inserts Flags S/SA Automatically to rules
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Hi Tom,=20

I have just zeroed in the statistics and yes the state-mismatch is still
increasing.=20

If I do enable logging, how would I know that packet is mismatched?=20

Cheers,=20

Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Uffner [mailto:tom@uffner.com]=20
Sent: Thursday, 15 May 2008 11:55 a.m.
To: Kian Mohageri
Cc: Mark Pagulayan; freebsd-pf@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD PF 4.1 Inserts Flags S/SA Automatically to rules

Kian Mohageri wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Mark Pagulayan
>> The way I see this is that this rule would be applied to udp traffic
as
>> well which will be dropped/blocked because flags only work for tcp
and
>> this might be the cause of state-mismatches that I see in the table -
>=20
> 'flags S/SA keep state' will work OK for UDP too.  Only the 'keep
> state' part will be applied to UDP, since no flags are involved.
>=20
>> state-mismatch                  11577272           48.7/s
>=20
> Could be caused by reloading your ruleset to include 'keep state'
> mid-connections, I think.  PF won't be aware of where the state is
> (especially true if you're using TCP window scaling), so it will fail
> after a while and you'll see state mismatches.

even if reloading the ruleset to include "keep state" and/or "flags
s/sa"
didn't sever pre-existing connections, it shouldn't cause that large a
number of mismatches.

when was the last time you zeroed the statistics? is the mismatch count
still increasing w/ the 7.0 stateful rules? you may need to add "log
(all)"
to find out where the state mismatches are coming from.



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