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Date:      Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:42:34 -0800
From:      James Long <stable@museum.rain.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
Subject:   Re: impossible rc.d ordering problem with stf and pf ?
Message-ID:  <20070131004234.GA13590@ns.umpquanet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070130120050.899B816A4BF@hub.freebsd.org>
References:  <20070130120050.899B816A4BF@hub.freebsd.org>

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> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:02:52 +0000
> From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
> Subject: Re: impossible rc.d ordering problem with stf and pf ?
> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, max@love2party.net
> Cc: rcoleman@criticalmagic.com, bms@freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <E1HBVDo-0008WW-Fe@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
> 
> > 1) You use the interface name as address w/o dynamic lookup.
> > i.e. "... from stf0 ..."
> 
> Yes, thats it - I hadn't come across this 'dynamic lookup' thing before 
> though, so I didn't realise what it was. I still cant find it in the PF
> manual, aside from a reference that you need to do it for NAT.
> 
> > To 1 and 2 there is a simple sollution: Don't do that then!  1 can easily=20
> > be defused by adding parentheses. i.e. "... from (stf0) ...".
> 
> 	pass out on (stf0) inet6 from any to any keep state

Just for my edification, what is the point of "keep state" on an
"any-to-any" rule?


Jim



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