Re: ping of death

2007-08-30 Thread Chris Buechler
On 8/30/07, Lorenz Helleis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nessus give it to me: > > Mensagem: > The machine crashed when pinged with an incorrectly fragmented packet. > This is known as the 'jolt' or 'ping of death' denial of service attack. > > An attacker may use this flaw to shut down this server,

Re: Current problem reports (Newbie Question)

2008-02-11 Thread Chris Buechler
On Feb 11, 2008 11:35 AM, Gavin Spomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have no idea what I'm supposed to do when I get this email. Am I supposed > to stop using pf until it gets patched or what? > If you don't know what to do with it, ignore it. :) No, no need to stop using it, those are just op

Re: GRE Limitation

2008-07-17 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Ansar Mohammed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > I just read the following on the pfsense website: > > "PPTP and GRE Limitation - The state tracking code in pf for the GRE > protocol can only track a single session per public IP per external server. > This

Re: GRE Limitation

2008-07-17 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Ansar Mohammed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this like "a known bug" that's being fixed or is this "by design" and we > have to deal with it? > It's not a bug. If you search the OpenBSD list archives you'll find plenty of discussion on it. There are proxies tha

Re: GRE Limitation

2008-07-18 Thread Chris Buechler
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Rudi Kramer - MWEB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had the same issue and when I checked with our ms-admin team they said > it was a Microsoft limitation. > No, it's an issue with many NAT implementations and how they handle state for the GRE protocol. pf only tra

Re: port stealth mode?

2008-08-20 Thread Chris Buechler
Leslie Jensen wrote: Hello I've done some testing with Steve Gibsons "Shields up" https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 These tests lists the ports as closed but visible. Instead the site suggest that one uses stealth so that the ports are not visible from the Internet. Is there a way to a

Re: kern/129060: [pf] [tun] pf doesn't forget the old tun IP

2008-11-22 Thread Chris Buechler
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:25 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Old Synopsis: pf doesn't forget the old tun IP > New Synopsis: [pf] [tun] pf doesn't forget the old tun IP > This sounds like the expected behavior, not a bug. You have to kill your states when your WAN IP changes or else traffic will

Re: Extremely simple redirect rule doesnt appear to be working

2009-07-04 Thread Chris Buechler
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 3:48 AM, Tim Traver wrote: > Thank you for your response. > > My rules are ok, because I have no other rules than that one, and I ran the > syntax checker on it... > > I am indeed running 7.0, so I guess I could update the sources on that > machine to 7.1 and rebuild pf. > r

Re: Extremely simple redirect rule doesnt appear to be working

2009-07-05 Thread Chris Buechler
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Tim Traver wrote: > > Thanks for responding. I am indeed testing this from within the same > machine, as I need the redirection to take place when attempting to make > requests FROM the machine to an outside source. > > Is there not a way to do that with pf ??? > Th

Re: Extremely simple redirect rule doesnt appear to be working

2009-07-05 Thread Chris Buechler
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Tim Traver wrote: > > > > yes, that is where I originally got all of the information, and made my > original post with my redirection line in the pf.conf that does not appear > to be doing anything. Then you didn't read the bottom of that page. What you're missing i

Re: packet forwarding/firewall performance question

2009-08-13 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Tom Uffner wrote: > I am curious what level of performance I should expect from the > firewall box described below in terms of packets/sec and bytes/sec. > > it is an 800 MHz VIA c3 with a Gigabit switch on the inside interface > and 20 Mbs symetric Fios on the outs

Re: kern/140512: [pf] pf doesn't block udp packets on multicast addresses

2009-11-12 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:32 PM, wrote: > Old Synopsis: pf doesn't block udp packets on multicast addresses > New Synopsis: [pf] pf doesn't block udp packets on multicast addresses > This isn't a legit PR, tcpdump shows traffic before it's evaluated by the ruleset. __

Re: OpenBSD 4.7's pf is not backward compatible

2010-05-19 Thread Chris Buechler
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > Now that OpenBSD 4.7 is out, I see that the pf has undergone a flag day. > > Are there people here actively working on incorporating this new release > into FreeBSD? > 4.5, yes. http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/user/eri/pf45/head/

Re: rdr + reply-to, some solution ?

2010-06-28 Thread Chris Buechler
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Luiz Gustavo S. Costa wrote: > Hi all. > > I know there is a problem in using rdr with the reply-to, I usually > use some software to "rdr", as the rinetd, but it's not a pretty > solution. > > Is there any alternative? > > Below is an example of what I'm talking a

Re: rdr + reply-to, some solution ?

2010-06-28 Thread Chris Buechler
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Luiz Gustavo S. Costa wrote: > hi Chris ! how are you? > > as it says here in Brazil: "I eat ball" :). > > pass in $if_int reply-to ($if_ext2 $gw_ext2) proto tcp from any to > 192.168.1.100 port 80 > > but still, the combination does not work > Then that's not the

Re: For better security: always "block all" or "block in all" is enough?

2010-07-29 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Peter Maxwell wrote: > > An ISMS, is a company defined document so will likely have different entries > or even none at all for that matter depending on the company.  In a previous > company I worked for, you would have just supported my point. > > And nice try, wh

Re: PF from OpenBSD 4.5 available as patch for 8.1-STABLE?

2010-11-19 Thread Chris Buechler
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Holger Rauch wrote: > Hi, > > is there such a patch? The reason why I ask for it is: > > I'm currently experiencing saturated network interfaces when using gigabit > networking in conjunction with certain Linux driver<->NIC combos for Broadcom > chips against th

Re: PF from OpenBSD 4.5 available as patch for 8.1-STABLE?

2010-11-20 Thread Chris Buechler
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Holger Rauch wrote: > Hi Chris, > > thanks for mentioning this. Unfortunately I forgot to mention that the > problem doesn't occur when both hosts are on the same subnet (i.e. no > firewall in > between, only HP ProCurve switches). > That doesn't invalidate my p

Re: long term maintenance of pf in FreeBSD (AKA where's pf 4.7?)

2011-01-13 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:51 AM, The Anarcat wrote: > Hi! > > I have digged into the archive after reading in the handbook that pf is > stuck at OpenBSD's 4.1 version, which is now quite old (may 2007). > > I have found this thread mentionning testing required for a patch: > > http://lists.freebs

Re: PF from OpenBSD 4.7

2011-02-20 Thread Chris Buechler
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Eir Nym wrote: > > I've found them, but there no status about. > You aren't looking very hard, it's been discussed at length on this list, check the archives. ___ freebsd-pf@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: [PATCH] PF+dummynet

2011-06-28 Thread Chris Buechler
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote: > Following up on some very old mail... > > On 2008-Nov-04 16:53:52 +0100, Ermal Luçi wrote: >>actually this is the latest against RELENG_7 which is confirmed to >>work with full features of pf(4) like route-to/reply-to etc... >>http://cvs.pfs

Re: How to block HTTP packets going to 0.0.0.0 via proxy

2011-10-07 Thread Chris Buechler
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Spenst, Aleksej wrote: > Hi, > > my browser goes online via proxy. > So, when I type http://0.0.0.0 in my browser I see in wireshark the following: > >     Source                   Destination          Protocol                     >  Info > 172.16.102.100        17

Re: [CFT] SMP-friendly pf

2012-06-09 Thread Chris Buechler
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: >  Hello, networkers! > >  [net@ in Cc, but further discussion should go on pf@] > >  As you already probably know, or some may be don't yet know, the pf(4) > subsystem in FreeBSD is currently working under a single mutex. This mutex > is acquir

Re: PF bugs

2013-06-21 Thread Chris Buechler
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Stan Gammons wrote: > I see there are several PF bugs and wondered if it's because PF isn't > maintained on FreeBSD? Perhaps that's the case given the version > differences versus PF on OpenBSD. pf is actively developed and maintained on FreeBSD, and widely used.

Re: drop vs return

2014-10-17 Thread Chris Buechler
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Laszlo Danielisz via freebsd-pf wrote: > Hi, > > Which is your set block-policy? Drop or Return? > And why? > Depends on the circumstance. Generally speaking, for traffic sourced from trusted networks, return so you don't hang applications or services by blocking

Re: pf and mpd

2005-05-17 Thread Chris Buechler
On 5/17/05, dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, >Does nyone have a pf configuration for mpd? I'm allowing port 1723 in > but when i atempt a connection from outside my network i'm getting an error > 619. Connections within the network work fine so i don't believe this is a > mpd issue. >

Re: pf buggy on 6.1-STABLE?

2006-06-08 Thread Chris Buechler
On 6/8/06, Dominic Marks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've experienced the same. If you have a lot of concurrent connections going on it seems that every so often an connection will be blocked, even if it doesnt match any rule. In my case I experienced this with apache22 acting as a reverse proxy/

Re: How To Track Down a CIDR (slightly OT)

2006-08-23 Thread Chris Buechler
On 8/23/06, beno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since I'm here at said café, this is my current address: *200.88.97.128 *I went to ripe.net and searched it, but that didn't provide anything interesting that I could see. It says "Allocated Unspecified" and "This country is really worldwide." Any idea

Re: PF performance problems

2007-03-03 Thread Chris Buechler
On 3/3/07, Sergey N. Romanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Max Laier wrote: > How do you test? Are you by chance using abench (or similar) from one > probe box? I use bench software on another server. That's exactly what Max is talking about - this is a very poor way to test a web server, espe