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authorHenning Brauer <henning@cvs.openbsd.org>2002-10-09 14:37:02 +0000
committerHenning Brauer <henning@cvs.openbsd.org>2002-10-09 14:37:02 +0000
commit9f57ef5a6d6b46a4a8ffdea5f4855078e2135ec8 (patch)
tree736abeb249bc71d4c70336836b39f81b4c7d37b8 /share/man/man5
parentaed2d6875418295c66a930dc310157f41cc598c4 (diff)
document the extended return-icmp syntax, block return, block drop and set
block-policy. from ryan ok dhartmei@
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man5')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man5/pf.conf.562
1 files changed, 51 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/pf.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/pf.conf.5
index 2c0bb8c647f..e629559f88b 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/pf.conf.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/pf.conf.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: pf.conf.5,v 1.92 2002/10/07 12:39:29 dhartmei Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: pf.conf.5,v 1.93 2002/10/09 14:37:01 henning Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2002, Daniel Hartmeier
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -231,14 +231,51 @@ Example:
.Bd -literal
set optimization aggressive
.Ed
+.Ss block-policy
+The
+.Em block-policy
+option sets the default behaviour for the
+.Em block
+action:
+.Bl -tag -width return -compact
+.It Em drop
+Packet is dropped silently
+.It Em return
+TCP packets are dropped with a TCP RST, UDP packets are dropped with an
+ICMP UNREACHABLE, and all other packets are dropped silently.
+.El
+Example:
+.Bd -literal
+ set block-policy return
+.Ed
.Sh ACTIONS
.Bl -tag -width Fl
.It Em block
The packet is blocked.
-Optionally, the filter can return a TCP RST or ICMP UNREACHABLE packet
-to the sender, where applicable.
-Returning ICMP packets can have
-an ICMP code set by number or name, TCP RST can have a TTL set.
+There are a number of ways in which a
+.Em block
+rule can behave when blocking a packet. The default behaviour is to
+.Em drop
+packets silently, however this can be overridden or made explicit
+globally by setting the
+.Em block-policy
+option, or on a per-rule basis with the following options:
+.Pp
+.Bl -tag -width "return-icmp6" -compact -offset indent
+.It Em drop
+the packet is silently dropped.
+.It Em return-rst
+applies only to tcp packets, and issues a TCP RST which closes the
+connection.
+.It Em return-icmp
+.It Em return-icmp6
+return ICMP messages for packets which match the rule.
+By default this is an ICMP UNREACHABLE message, however the type
+of message can be overridden by specifying it as a code or number.
+.It Em return
+returns a TCP RST for tcp packets, an ICMP UNREACHABLE for UDP packets,
+and silently drops all other packets.
+.El
.It Em pass
The packet is passed.
.It Em scrub
@@ -1020,7 +1057,8 @@ option = set ( [ "timeout" ( timeout | "{" timeout-list "}" ) ] |
"high-latency" | "satellite" |
"aggressive" | "conservative" ] ]
[ "limit" ( limit | "{" limit-list "}" ) ] |
- [ "loginterface" ( interface-name | "none" ) ] ) .
+ [ "loginterface" ( interface-name | "none" ) ] | .
+ [ "block-policy" ( "drop" | "return" ) ] ).
pf_rule = action ( "in" | "out" )
[ "log" | "log-all" ] [ "quick" ]
@@ -1049,11 +1087,13 @@ antispoof_rule = "antispoof" [ "log" ] [ "quick" ]
[ af ] .
action = "pass" | "block" [ return ] | "scrub" .
-return = "return-rst" [ "(" "ttl" number ")" ] |
- "return-icmp"
- [ "(" ( icmp-code-name | icmp-code-number ) ")" ] |
- "return-icmp6"
- [ "(" ( icmp-code-name | icmp-code-number ) ")" ] .
+return = "drop" |
+ "return" |
+ "return-rst" [ "(" "ttl" number ")" ] |
+ "return-icmp" [ "(" icmpcode ["," icmp6code ] ")" ] |
+ "return-icmp6" [ "(" icmp6code ")" ] .
+icmpcode = ( icmp-code-name | icmp-code-number ) .
+icmp6code = ( icmp6-code-name | icmp6-code-number ) .
ifspec = ( [ "!" ] interface-name ) | "{" interface-list "}"
interface-list = [ "!" ] interface-name [ [ "," ] interface-list ] .