pf's states

[Victor Sudakov]

Dear Colleagues,

I was asking this question on the freebsd-net mailing list, but I think
it would be better to re-ask it here.

There is something I cannot understand about pf's notion of state. 

Consider this very simple example with two interfaces:

===================================
# DMZ 172.16.1.0/24
pass in on $dmz
#block in on $dmz from any to 192.168.0.0/16

# Inside 192.168.10.0/24
pass in on $inside
===================================

While the "block ..." line is commented out, I can "telnet 172.16.1.10 80" from 192.168.10.3.
But when I uncomment the "block ..." line and restart pf, I cannot do
that any more. Why is that?

My idea was that the "pass in on $inside" creates state so that return
traffic from 172.16.1.10:80 to 192.168.10.3:xxxxx should be permitted,
but this is not happening so I must be wrong in my understaning how
state works.


-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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