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Date:      Sun, 18 May 2008 10:29:19 -0700
From:      "Kian Mohageri" <kian.mohageri@gmail.com>
To:        "=?UTF-8?Q?Johan_Str=C3=B6m?=" <johan@stromnet.se>
Cc:        Alex Trull <alex@trull.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, freebsd-pf@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: connect(): Operation not permitted
Message-ID:  <fee88ee40805181029x31755a75i3b61731864e995fd@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 3:33 AM, Johan Ström <johan@stromnet.se> wrote:
> On May 18, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>
>> Johan Ström wrote:
>>
>>> drop all traffic)? A check with pfctl -vsr reveals that the actual rule
>>> inserted is "pass on lo0 inet from 123.123.123.123 to 123.123.123.123 flags
>>> S/SA keep state". Where did that "keep state" come from?
>>
>> 'flags S/SA keep state' is the default now for tcp filter rules -- that
>> was new in 7.0 reflecting the upstream changes made between the 4.0 and
>> 4.1
>> releases of OpenBSD.  If you want a stateless rule, append 'no state'.
>>
>> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/filter.html#state
>
> Thanks! I was actually looking around in the pf.conf manpage but failed to
> find it yesterday, but looking closer today I now saw it.
> Applied the no state (and quick) to the rule, and now no state is created.
> And the problem I had in the first place seems to have been resolved too
> now, even though it didn't look like a state problem.. (started to deny new
> connections much earlier than the states was full, altough maybee i wasnt
> looking for updates fast enough or something).
>

I'd be willing to bet it's because you're reusing the source port on a
new connection before the old state expires.

You'll know if you check the state-mismatch counter.

Anyway, glad you found a resolution.

-Kian


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