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Date:      Wed, 2 Apr 2008 21:51:05 -0700
From:      "Kian Mohageri" <kian.mohageri@gmail.com>
To:        "Jeremy Chadwick" <koitsu@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Diego Salvador <salvador_d13@yahoo.com.ph>, fox@verio.net, freebsd-pf@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PF and State Table
Message-ID:  <fee88ee40804022151x44148f70t9c78185481e89957@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080403042026.GA88726@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 09:17:07PM -0700, Kian Mohageri wrote:
>  > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Mark Pagulayan
>  > <m.pagulayan@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>  > > Hi,
>  > >
>  > >  What pf version are you using? Correct me if I am wrong guys, on PF4.1
>  > >  which a the release version of pf on freebsd 7.0 when you specify keep
>  > >  state the flag S/A is implied?
>  > >
>  >
>  > Correct, and if you leave out 'keep state' entirely, it will apply
>  > 'flags S/SA keep state'
>  >
>  > e.g.,
>  >
>  > kian@alvis:~
>  > > cat pf.conf
>  > pass on em0
>  >
>  > kian@alvis:~
>  > > pfctl -vnf pf.conf
>  > pass on em0 all flags S/SA keep state
>
>  I'd like to know what exactly happens to UDP and ICMP packets when
>  hitting that rule, since UDP and ICMP don't have such flags.  The
>  documentation doesn't really discuss what happens in this case.
>
>  This is why I solicit having 3 separate rules for each protocol (TCP =
>  flags S/SA keep state, UDP = keep state, ICMP = keep state).
>
>

The flags requirement only applies to TCP, so only the 'keep state'
part is applied to UDP/ICMP.

-Kian



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