Hello,

Seeing that nobody is answering to the question below I'd add: Is there
anybody who uses authpf in the same scenario? Does it behave like in my
case? Any suggestion to keep the states for the user after he/she closes the
session?

Thank you.

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Derek <derekmail...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I'm using authpf to allow external users to access to certain restricted
> services within our network. This network hosts public services as well,
> this is services which are open to all internet.
>
> The thing is that after some tests I realized that a client who has an
> authpf session opened and uses both, the autpf-protected service and the
> public service, gets disconnected of all services when he/she closes the
> authpf session.
>
> Looking a little bit closer I can see that all the states created by an IP
> address are removed when the user from that IP closes the authpf session so
> the states created by the authpf rules but also the ones created by the
> "regular" pf.conf rules disappear from the table.
>
> I guess that this is because there is only one states table and it could be
> difficult to know which states are genereated by which rules.
>
> The question is, is there any plan to label or mark the states so will be
> possible in the future for the non-authpf states to survive the authpf
> session?
>
> Thank you all.
>
> Derek.

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