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Date:      Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:39:48 +0200
From:      Florian Smeets <flo@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Bradley W. Dutton" <brad-fbsd-pf@duttonbros.com>
Cc:        freebsd-pf@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 9-BETA3 "current entries" growing indefinitely
Message-ID:  <4E8B7D24.107@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111004140605.Horde.FqODeklJCItOi3U9N79RPQs@duttonbros.com>
References:  <20111004140605.Horde.FqODeklJCItOi3U9N79RPQs@duttonbros.com>

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On 04.10.11 23:06, Bradley W. Dutton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just updated an 8-STABLE box to 9-BETA3 and have a problem where PF
> keeps growing the "current entries" indefinitely. I saw another person
> with a similar issue:
> http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.current/browse_thread/thread/f350be446d1914d8?pli=1
>
> But I didn't get any reply.
>
> I rebuilt world again once more after the initial 8-STABLE upgrade to
> see if it would fix itself but no luck. My firewall rules haven't
> changed and from what I've read I shouldn't need to change anything for
> this update. Anyone have any ideas? Flusing states will clear out the 34
> states but won't clear the current entries. I've had to do the following
> in pf.conf to keep my home router up for more than a day:
> set limit states 1600000 # this used to be 30k
>

Hi,

this is a known problem, and it's being worked on. A workaround is to 
use the pf module and not compile it into the kernel.

HTH,
Florian



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