After sending off the question I did a little more digging and I think I figured it out. I was reading the current pf faq on the openbsd website, which turns out to be based on OpenBSd 3.6 version of pf. FreeBSD 5.3 has OpenBSD 3.5 version of pf.
Turns out in the version 3.5 when loading an anchor file you HAD to specify it as... load anchor anchor-name:ruleset-name from "file-path" The version the current faq was written for seems to have made the ruleset-name an optional value, so it wasn't listed in the code example. I found an older version for the faq written for verion 3.5 at. http://openbsd.automagic.org/faq/pf/index.html On 01 Mar 2005 13:19:25 +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FreeBSD MailingLists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > when I start pf I get: > > <snip> > > Enabling pf. > > /etc/pf.conf:4: anchor '(null)' invalid > > Just to eliminate the obvious - the file you want to pull in exists, is > readable and contains what appears at first glance to be valid pf rules? > > Does including the anchor in the main pf.conf file produce different results? > > -- > Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team > http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ > "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
