pf and new interface

Andriy Gapon avg at FreeBSD.org
Tue Aug 18 11:35:35 UTC 2015


On 18/08/2015 14:18, wishmaster wrote:
>  --- Original message ---
> From: "Andriy Gapon" <avg at freebsd.org>
> Date: 18 August 2015, 14:05:15
> 
>  
>> I have the following rule in pf.conf:
>> set skip on tap
>> and even the following one:
>> set skip on tap0
>>
>> The rules are loaded at the system start-up time, but the tap interface
>> may not be created until much later.  When tap0 is first created the
>> skip rules are not applied to it and the traffic gets filtered.  If I
>> reload the pf configuration, then the rules start working.
>>
>> Is there a way to make pf honor such rules for the dynamic interfaces?Hi,
> 
> You should do it in your application, e.g. in mpd this is something like below
> 
>         set iface up-script /usr/local/etc/mpd5/link_up.sh
>         set iface down-script /usr/local/etc/mpd5/link_down.sh
> 
> in openvpn - see manuals.

That's a good suggestion.  But how to add a single rule for pf?
Reloading the whole configuration is disruptive to existing connections.

-- 
Andriy Gapon


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