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From: peter@bsdly.net (Peter N. M. Hansteen)
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"Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@tysdomain.com> writes:

> I was looking for some information on the freebsd pf flavor and haven't 
> ran across much except for old mysterious rules that employ a lot of 
> voodoo to keep people from portscanning, but which I'm told are actually 
> wrong.
> Is there a good place to obtain pf docs?

The FreeBSD Handbook's PF chapter recently grew significantly, check
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls-pf.html
and go to the new section "31.4.6. PF Rule Sets and Tools". (Also, you
could do worse than buy the book, but I'll limit my plugging.)

- Peter
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