[pf4freebsd] Re: pf.os (was: Possible remote DoS (panic) with scrub rules!!!)

Max Laier max at love2party.net
Wed Sep 15 20:48:06 PDT 2004


> If you don't have pf.os in /etc directory, please copy pf.os
> to that directory manually.
> pf.os can be found at:
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/etc/pf.os
> You may not do anything with pfctl without /etc/pf.os.

This is not a security issue! pf.os is just a database to tell pf (pfctl)
about fingerprints of spezific OSs. This should be in "/etc/pf.os" since
version 1.62 allready. If you don't have it, you will get an error message
from pfctl. Information on this issue can also be found at:
http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/help.html

Regards,
    Max





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