smtp not working with state modulation

Jeremy Chadwick koitsu at freebsd.org
Tue May 13 03:02:52 UTC 2008


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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