On 2017-08-12, Walter Alejandro Iglesias <w...@roquesor.com> wrote: > Yesterday while copying a big file from one machine to another in my LAN > I noticed that restarting pf: > > # pfctl -d && pfctl -e -f /etc/pf.conf > > scp stops and quits showing this message: > > - stalled - Conection reset by 192.168.1.* Lost connection > > > Is this expected or is a bug? > > >
Expected. PF is a state-inspecting firewall and verifies things like TCP sequence numbers; it needs to see the initial connection handshake to pick up the wscale value. I would recommend just reloading the ruleset rather than disabling and re-enabling PF first.
