pf loosing (v6) TCP states much too early, "no-route" not working with IPv6

Harald Schmalzbauer h.schmalzbauer at omnilan.de
Fri May 31 13:44:10 UTC 2013


 Hello,

my default pf config blocks everything and allowes specific connections.
One of them is "in from x to self port ssh" which expands to "port ssh
keep state flags S/SA" by default.

After ssh login, I see the corresponding entry in the states table:
all tcp 2001:db8:f0bb:1::1[22] <- 2001:db8:f0bb:1::3:1[42730]      
ESTABLISHED:ESTABLISHED

pfctl -s info claims:
TIMEOUTS:
...
tcp.established           86400s
...

After a couple of hours of inactivity, the ssh session silently stalls.
Here's what I have in the log:
rule 3/0(match): block in on rl1: 2001:db8:f0bb:1::3:1.42730 >
2001:db8:f0bb:1::1.22: Flags [P.], ack 1444009640, win 65535, length 48

The rule evaluation by itself is correct, it's no TCP-SYN, so it get's
blocked, but this packet should not get through the ruleset at all, at
least not before 86400s of idle connection. In my case, it was after ~3
hours. And ports numbers are exactly the same as in the state table
entry from some hours before. So the state table entry seems to got lost!

My question:

Is such a problem known?
Did I miss enything else?

System runs 8.1-STABLE/x86

Another issue was that "no-route" doesn't work for IPv6 connections. I
had to replace it with "any".

Thansk for any hints in advance,

-Harry

P.S.: It's an embedded box where upgrading is overdue, but not that easy...

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