freebsd 8

Olivier Thibault Olivier.Thibault at lmpt.univ-tours.fr
Fri Jan 8 10:38:38 UTC 2010


Le 08.01.2010 11:31, Peter Maxwell a écrit :
> 2010/1/8 Olivier Thibault <Olivier.Thibault at lmpt.univ-tours.fr>:
> 
>>> # keep stats of outging connections
>>> pass out keep state
>> This rule allows everything out and next outgoing rules won't be checked as
>> this one first match.
> 
> That's incorrect, pf does the opposite and uses the *last* match - at
> least that's what the documentation says...
> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/filter.html
> 
> The quick keyword is used for shortcut evaluation.

Yes ! Actually, all the following rules in my pf.conf use this keyword.
That's why I said that.
I suppose the rules evaluation is quicker this way but I may be wrong.
Am I ?

Best regards,



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