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Date:      Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:17:29 -0400
From:      Elliott Perrin <elliott@c7.ca>
To:        freebsd-pf@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SSH Session disconnecting with pf
Message-ID:  <1207610249.32218.143.camel@kensho.c7.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20080407230750.GA15720@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
References:  <003801c898fb$16a897a0$43f9c6e0$@net> <20080407230750.GA15720@eos.sc1.parodius.com>

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On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 16:07 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:02:33PM +0100, Torsten @ CNC-LONDON wrote:
> > I'm running FreeBSD stable6.2  on all my servers and in the past one year I
> > notices a random disconnection of persistent sessions to and from servers
> > with  is running as PF the firewall
> 
> The big problem with your rules looks to be how you're determining SYN,
> and how you're using keep state.
> 
> Below are some comments.
> 
> >         SYN_ONLY="S/FSRA"
> 
> This is very, very wrong, and probably the cause of your issues.  This
> should be S/SA.

That is not very very wrong. 

Any TCP session starting up should only have the SYN flag set out of SYN
FIN ACK RST. As a matter of fact this is in theory a more secure setting
than S/SA (SYN out of SYN ACK). 

Cheers,
Elliott Perrin
elliott@c7.ca




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