On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:05:38AM +1000, Mikel Lindsaar wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I have purchased and read the book of PF (good book by the way) as
> well as the man pages, and I have a question that I have not been able
> to find a definitive answer on:
> 
> "Does PF only evaluate every packet against the ruleset once on all
> interfaces, or does it evaluate once for each interface?"
> 

If you default action is `block' and you want to allow a packet to be
routed through 2 interfaces on a multihomed box, you'd need two rules:
1st rule to allow packet `in' on the first interface
2nd rule to allow packet `out' from the second interface

I hope this answers your question.

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