Hi All,

See my configuration at the bottom of this email.  I am looking into why my
pflog has these ambiguous entries that show source and destination as all
zeros e.g. 0.0.0.0.0 > 0.0.0.0.0.

I saw that there was a related thread earlier this year asking questions
that was unresolved/unconfirmed and I would like to get feedback from one of
the developers (Daniel, Henning?) to confirm my suspicions.  I believe that
these lines are a result of the log (all) statement, which logs all
subsequent packets in a stateful session (and not just the first packets
matching the rules).  If that is true, then IMO the log entries are not very
intuitive or useful without the true source/destination IP Addresses
included... I can't grep for src/dst any more, now I assume I would have to
correlate the session information some other way (e.g. sequence numbers?)

So to put my questions more succinctly:
1) Are logs with 0.0.0.0.0 > 0.0.0.0.0 a result of the pf.conf log (all)
statement, and are therefore an indication of a continuing tcp session?
2) Are there any plans to update the logging to represent the actual src/dst
of these packets?  If not, what is your suggested method for correlating
these stateful session log entries?


By the way, I tried to post this to the pf mailing list but got bounced back
on the SPAM filters when trying to subscribe.  Same goes for when I tried to
email Daniel directly to resolve the issue. Can someone get in touch with
him and inform him of the issue?

My configurations:
# uname -rsvm
OpenBSD 4.9 GENERIC#477 amd64


# pfctl -s rules
pass all flags S/SA keep state
pass in log (all) quick on em0 proto tcp from any to any port = https flags
S/SA keep state
pass in log (all) quick on em0 proto tcp from any to any port = ssh flags
S/SA keep state
block drop in log (all) on em0 all
pass out log (all) on em0 all flags S/SA keep state
block drop in on ! lo0 proto tcp from any to any port 6000:6010


# tcpdump -ne -ttt -r /var/log/pflog host 0.0.0.0 | head
tcpdump: WARNING: snaplen raised from 116 to 160
Aug 17 16:00:30.673967 rule 2/(match) pass in on em0: 0.0.0.0.0 > 0.0.0.0.0:
P 142855442:142855478(36) ack 49382696 win 256 (DF)
Aug 17 16:00:30.867230 rule 2/(match) pass out on em0: 0.0.0.0.0 >
0.0.0.0.0: . ack 93472783 win 2190 (DF) [tos 0x10]
Aug 17 16:01:30.988858 rule 2/(match) pass in on em0: 0.0.0.0.0 > 0.0.0.0.0:
P 36:72(36) ack 1 win 256 (DF)
Aug 17 16:01:31.179997 rule 2/(match) pass out on em0: 0.0.0.0.0 >
0.0.0.0.0: . ack 93472819 win 2190 (DF) [tos 0x10]
Aug 17 16:02:15.903119 rule 3/(match) block in on em0: 0.0.0.0.68 >
255.255.255.255.67: xid:0x5d366a85 flags:0x8000 [|bootp]
Aug 17 16:02:31.301720 rule 2/(match) pass in on em0: 0.0.0.0.0 > 0.0.0.0.0:
P 72:108(36) ack 1 win 256 (DF)
Aug 17 16:02:31.492758 rule 2/(match) pass out on em0: 0.0.0.0.0 >
0.0.0.0.0: . ack 93472855 win 2190 (DF) [tos 0x10]
Aug 17 16:03:31.615561 rule 2/(match) pass in on em0: 0.0.0.0.0 > 0.0.0.0.0:
P 108:144(36) ack 1 win 256 (DF)
Aug 17 16:03:31.815571 rule 2/(match) pass out on em0: 0.0.0.0.0 >
0.0.0.0.0: . ack 93472891 win 2190 (DF) [tos 0x10]
Aug 17 16:04:31.929505 rule 2/(match) pass in on em0: 0.0.0.0.0 > 0.0.0.0.0:
P 144:180(36) ack 1 win 256 (DF)


Thanks,
Matt

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