PF Issue with BETA4

[Max Laier]

On Friday 17 September 2004 05:00, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> It seems that, at least with the PF devices built into the kernel that
> an issue arises during shutdown.  As I was rebooting the server, I
> noticed that the disks were syncing and yet there was a huge amount of
> traffic on my router to the Internet.  Upon inspection, packets were
> still passing through the kernel and a large download was still going on
> through a kernel that should have long ago quite passing traffic!  In
> other words, it appears that the NAT function of PF does not shutdown as
> it should while the the OS is shutting down.  Traffic ceases almost
> immediately with IPFW and IPFILTER.

Hmmm? So you are saying that staying up as long as possible is an error? I 
don't quite see the point in shutting down early. If you still want to, you 
can script it somewhere. "echo block all | pfctl -Fa -f-"

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