smtp not working with state modulation

[Mark Pagulayan]

Thanks for the reply Jeremy. This is a big help. 

Cheers, 

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Chadwick [mailto:koitsu at freebsd.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, 13 May 2008 3:03 p.m.
To: Mark Pagulayan
Cc: freebsd-pf at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: smtp not working with state modulation

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 01:53:31PM +1200, Mark Pagulayan wrote:
> OS: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE
> I am having trouble Allowing external request SMTP through the
firewall
> with "module state". But with "keep state" it is working fine. 

modulate state is known to be broken; use keep state instead.  Here's
the thread where I was informed of this fact:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-pf/2008-March/004223.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-pf/2008-March/004227.html

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