PF route-to behavior

Han Hwei Woo hhw at pce-net.com
Mon Mar 12 21:56:04 UTC 2007


Just to be certain, are you aware that for PF, the last matching rule is 
applied? Also, you can use the command:
# pfctl -vv -sr
to examine how your rules are being matched.


Cheers,
Han


Alexandre Biancalana wrote:
> Hi List,
>
>
> I´m doing a firewall setup using 6-STABLE + PF with two internet links 
> but I can't do the route-to rule function as I need.
>
>
>          (default gw)    ______
>  Link A <-----------> |int A  |
>                                  |           |
>  Link B <-----------> |int B  |
>                                  |______|
>                              FreeBSD FW
>
> A simple thing that I need to do is test the two Internet links to 
> know if they are up or not. To do this I could ping or connect tcp 
> ports on some external ips thought each link, using nc and hping I 
> tried do this generate connections/packets from each network interface 
> connected to each link but the packets always go out by the interface 
> indicated by machines default route.
>
> I tried to add this rules in pf to force packets out by the right 
> interface based in your source address, but this does not work, and 
> the packets generated with ip of int B are going out by int A.
>
> pass out log on $int_a route-to ( $int_b $int_b_gw ) from $int_b to any
> pass out log on $int_b route-to ( $int_a $int_a_gw ) from $int_a to any
>
>
> Am I forgetting something ? Any comments ?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Alexandre
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