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.Dd Nov 19, 2002
.Dt PF.CONF 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm pf.conf
.Nd packet filter configuration file
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Xr pf 4
packet filter modifies, drops or passes packets according to rules or
definitions specified in
.Nm pf.conf .
A variety of definitions activate features:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width xxxx
.It Macros
User-defined variables can be set and used later on, resulting in a
file which is more easily comprehended.
.It Options
Various options can be changed to tune the default behaviour of the engine.
.It Traffic Normalization (e.g. Pa scrub No )
Traffic normalization protects internal machines against inconsistancies
in Internet protocols.
.It Queueing
A queuing engine allows for filtering rule based bandwidth control.
.It Translation (Various forms of NAT)
Translation rules specify which addresses are to be mapped or redirected.
.It Packet filtering
Lastly, a stateful and stateless packet filtering can constrain packet flow.
.El
.Pp
In general, the above lines must occur in the order shown because this
matches the semantics of the underlying engine; in most cases rules
are evaluated in the order in which they are specified.
.Pp
.Sh MACROS
Much like in
.Xr cpp 1
or
.Xr m4 1 ,
macros can be set and later expanded.
Macro names must start with a letter and may contain letters, digits
and underscores.
Macro names may not be reserved words (e.g.
.Pa pass ,
.Pa in ,
.Pa out Ns ).
Macros are not expanded recursively.
.Pp
For example,
.Pp
.Bd -literal
ext_if = "kue0"
pass out on $ext_if from any to any keep state
pass in on $ext_if proto tcp from any to any port 25 keep state
.Ed
.Pp
.Sh OPTIONS
A variety of global options can be adjusted to tune
.Xr pf 4
so that it performs better in various situations, using the
.Pa set
command.
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width xxxx
.It Pa set timeout
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width interval -compact
.It Em interval
Interval between purging expired states and fragments.
.It Em frag
Seconds before an unassembled fragment is expired.
.El
.Pp
When a packet matches a stateful connection, the seconds to live of the
connection will be updated to that of the proto.modifier which corresponds
to the connection state.
Each packet which matches this state will reset the TTL.
Tuning these values may improve the performance of the
firewall at the risk of dropping valid idled connections.
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width "tcp.established " -compact
.It Em tcp.first
The state after the first packet.
.It Em tcp.opening
The state before the destination host ever sends a packet.
.It Em tcp.established
The fully established state.
.It Em tcp.closing
The state after the first FIN has been sent.
.It Em tcp.finwait
The state after both FINs have been exchanged and the connection is closed.
Some hosts (notably web servers on Solaris) send TCP packets even after closing
the connection.
Increasing tcp.finwait (and possibly tcp.closing) can prevent blocking of
such packets.
.It Em tcp.closed
The state after one endpoint sends a RST.
.El
.Pp
ICMP and UDP are handled in a similar fashion to TCP but with a much more
limited set of states:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width "udp.multiple " -compact
.It Em udp.first
The state after the first packet.
.It Em udp.single
The state if the source host sends more than one packet but the destination
host has never sent one back.
.It Em udp.multiple
The state if both hosts have sent packets.
.It Em icmp.first
The state after the first packet.
.It Em icmp.error
The state after an icmp error came back in response to an icmp packet.
.El
.Pp
Other protocols are handled similarly to UDP:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width "other.multiple " -compact
.It Em other.first
.It Em other.single
.It Em other.multiple
.El
.Pp
For example:
.Pp
.Bd -literal
set timeout tcp.established 3600
set timeout { tcp.opening 30, tcp.closing 900 }
.Ed
.It Pa set loginterface
Enable collection of packet and byte count statistics for the given interface.
These statistics can be viewed using
.Bd -literal
# pfctl -s info
.Ed
.Pp
In this example
.Xr pf 4
collects statistics on the interface named dc0:
.Bd -literal
set loginterface dc0
.Ed
.Pp
One can unset the loginterface using
.Bd -literal
set loginterface none
.Ed
.It Pa set limit
Sets hard limits on the memory pools used by the packet filter.
See
.Xr pool 9
for an explanation of memory pools.
.Pp
For example,
.Bd -literal
set limit states 20000
.Ed
.Pp
sets the maximum number of entries in the memory pool used by state table
entries (generated by 'keep state' rules) to 20000.
.Bd -literal
set limit frags 20000
.Ed
.Pp
sets the maximum number of entries in the memory pool used for fragment
reassembly (generated by
.Pa scrub
rules) to 20000.
.Pp
These can be combined:
.Bd -literal
set limit { states 20000, frags 20000 }
.Ed
.It Pa set optimization
Optimize the engine to one of the following network topographies or
environments:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width "O high-latency " -compact
.It Pa default
A normal network environment.
Suitable for almost all networks.
.It Pa normal
Alias for
.Pa default
.It Em high-latency
A high-latency environment (such as a satellite connection)
.It Pa satellite
Alias for
.Pa high-latency
.It Em aggressive
Aggressively expire connections when they are likely no longer valid.
This can greatly reduce the memory usage of the firewall at the cost of
dropping idle connections early.
.It Em conservative
Extremely conservative settings.
Pains will be taken to avoid dropping legitimate connections at the
expense of greater memory utilization (possibly much greater on a busy
network) and slightly increased processor utilization.
.El
.Pp
For example:
.Pp
.Bd -literal
set optimization aggressive
.Ed
.It Pa set block-policy
The
.Pa block-policy
option sets the default behaviour for the
.Pa block
action:
.Pp
.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
.Pp
For example:
.Pp
.Bd -literal
set block-policy return
.Ed
.It Pa set require-order
By default
.Xr pfctl 8
enforces an ordering of the ruleset to: options,
.Pa scrub ,
translation,
.Pa queue ,
filter.
Setting this option to
.Pa no
disables this enforcement.
One has to be very careful about the implications of an out of order
ruleset.
.El
.Pp
.Sh TRAFFIC NORMALIZATION
Traffic normalization is used to sanitize packet content in such
a way that there are no ambiguities in packet interpretation on
the receiving side.
Packet normalization is invoked via the
.Pa scrub
directive.
The normalizer does IP fragment reassembly to prevent attacks
that confuse intrusion detection systems by sending overlapping
IP fragments.
.Pp
A few options exist which affect scrub operation:
.Bl -tag -width xxxx
.It Pa no-df
Clears the
.Pa dont-fragment
bit from a matching ip packet.
.It Pa min-ttl <number>
Enforces a minimum ttl for matching ip packets.
.It Pa max-mss <number>
Enforces a maximum mss for matching tcp packets.
.It Pa fragment reassemble
Using scrub rules, fragments can be reassembled by normalization.
In this case, fragments are buffered until they form a complete
packet, and only the completed packet is passed on to the filter.
The advantage is that filter rules have to deal only with complete
packets, and can ignore fragments.
The drawback of caching fragments is the additional memory cost.
But the full reassembly method is the only method that currently works
with NAT.
This is the default behavior of a
.Pa scrub
rule if no fragmentation modifier is supplied.
.It Pa fragment crop
The default fragment reassembly method is expensive, hence the option
to crop is provided.
In this case,
.Xr pf 4
will track the fragments and cache a small range descriptor.
Duplicate fragments are dropped and overlaps are cropped.
Thus data will only occur once on the wire with ambiguities resolving to
the first occurrence.
Unlike the
.Pa fragment reassemble
modifier, fragments are not buffered, they are passed as soon as they
are received.
This reassembly mechanism does not yet work with NAT.
.Pp
.It Pa fragment drop-ovl
This option is similar to the
.Pa fragment crop
modifier except that all overlapping or duplicate fragments will be
dropped and will cause the following corresponding fragments to be
dropped as well.
.El
.Pp
For example,
.Bd -literal
scrub in on $ext_if all fragment reassemble
.Ed
.Pp
.Sh QUEUEING
Filtering rules can also assign packets to a queue for the purpose of bandwidth
control.
At least two rules are required to configure queues, and later
any packet filtering or rule can reference the defined
queues by name.
The queue name last referenced is where any packets from
.Pa pass
rules will be queued, while for
.Pa block
rules it specifies where any resulting
.Pa icmp
or
.Pa TCP RST
packets should be enqueued.
.Pp
.Pa altq on
specifies on which interface queues will be set up.
The
.Pa scheduler
type is required where currently only CBQ is supported.
.Pa bandwidth
is optional and specifies the maximum rate for all queues on this interface.
All queues for this interface have to be listed after
.Pa queue .
.Pp
In the following example, the interface
.Pa dc0
should queue up to 5 Mbit/s in four queues using CBQ.
.Bd -literal
altq on dc0 scheduler cbq bandwidth 5Mb queue { std, http, mail, ssh }
.Ed
.Pp
Parameters for the queues are specified in
.Pa queue
rules. The queuename must match the definition in the
.Pa altq
rule.
.Pa bandwidth
sets the maximum bitrate that can be processed by this queue.
The value must not exceed the value of the parent queue and can be specified
in absolute and percentage values.
Between queues a
.Pa priority
level can be set.
The range is 0..7 with a default of 1.
Queues with a higher priority level are preferred in the case of overload.
The scheduler can get additional parameters with
.Pa cbq( <parameters> No ) .
Parameters are as follows:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width Fl
.It Em default
Packets not matched by another queue are assigned to this one.
Exactly one default queue is required.
.It Em borrow
The queue can borrow bandwidth from the parent.
.It Em control
Control class packets (RSVP, IGMP, ICMP) are assigned to this queue.
.It Em red
Enables RED (Random Early Detection) on this queue.
RED drops packets with a probability proportional to the average
queue length.
.It Em rio
Enables RIO on this queue. RIO is RED with IN/OUT, thus running
RED two times more then RED would do.
RIO is currently not supported in the GENERIC kernel.
.It Em ecn
Enables ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification) on this queue.
ECN implies RED.
.El
.Pp
Furthermore child queues can be specified like in an
.Pa altq
rule.
.Pp
Following the previous example, this would specify the four referenced
queues, plus a few child queues. The
.Pa tos
field is used to give interactive
.Xr ssh 1
sessions priority over bulk transfers like
.Xr scp 1
and
.Xr sftp 1 Ns .
.Pp
.Bd -literal
queue std bandwidth 10% cbq(default)
queue http bandwidth 60% priority 2 cbq(borrow red) \\
{ employees, developers }
queue developers bandwidth 75% cbq(borrow)
queue employees bandwidth 15%
queue mail bandwidth 10% priority 0 cbq(borrow ecn)
queue ssh bandwidth 20% cbq(borrow) { ssh_interactive, ssh_bulk }
queue ssh_interactive priority 7
queue ssh_bulk priority 0
block return out on $ext_if inet all queue std
pass out on dc0 inet proto tcp from $developerhosts to any port 80 \\
keep state queue developers
pass out on dc0 inet proto tcp from $employeehosts to any port 80 \\
keep state queue employees
pass out on dc0 inet proto tcp from any to any port 22 tos 0x10 \\
keep state queue ssh_interactive #priority for interactive sessions
pass out on dc0 inet proto tcp from any to any port 22 tos 0x08 \\
keep state queue ssh_bulk #less priority for scp/sftp/...
pass out on dc0 inet proto tcp from any to any port 25 \\
keep state queue mail
.Ed
.Pp
Child queues must not exceed the bandwidth definition of the parent.
Relative values are calculated against the bandwidth of the parent queue.
.Pp
.Sh TRANSLATION
Translation rules modify either the source or destination address of all
packets associated with a stateful connection which is automatically created
for packets matching such a rule.
The translation engine modifies the specified address and/or port in the
packet, recalculates IP, TCP and UDP checksums as necessary, and passes it to
the packet filter for evaluation.
.Pp
The state entry created permits
.Xr pf 4
to keep track of the original address for traffic associated with that state
and correctly direct return traffic on that connection.
.Pp
A variety of translation types rules are available with pf:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width xxxx
.It Em binat
A
.Pa binat
rule specifies a bidirectional mapping between an external IP netblock
and an internal IP netblock.
.It Em nat
A
.Pa nat
rule specifies that IP addresses are to be changed as the packet
traverses the given interface.
This technique allows one or more IP addresses
on the translating host to support network traffic for a larger range of
machines on an "inside" network.
Although in theory any IP address can be used on the inside, it is strongly
recommended that one of the address ranges defined by RFC 1918 be used.
These netblocks are:
.Bd -literal
10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (all of net 10, i.e., 10/8)
172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (i.e., 172.16/12)
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (i.e., 192.168/16)
.Ed
.It Em rdr
The packet is redirected to another destination and possibly a
different port.
.Pa rdr
rules can optionally specify port ranges instead of single ports.
\'rdr ... port 2000:2999 -> ... port 4000\' redirects ports 2000 to 2999
(including port 2000 and 2999) to the same port 4000.
\'rdr ... port 2000:2999 -> ... port 4000:*\' redirects port 2000 to 4000,
2001 to 4001, ..., 2999 to 4999.
.El
.Pp
In addition to modifying the address, some translation rules may modify
source or destination ports for
.Xr tcp
or
.Xr udp
connections; implicitly in the case of
.Pa nat
rules and explicitly in the case of
.Pa rdr
rules.
Port numbers are never translated with a
.Pa binat
rule.
.Pp
For each packet processed by the translator, the translation rules are
evaluated in sequential order, from first to last.
The first matching rule decides what action is taken.
.Pp
The
.Pa no
option prefixed to a translation rule causes packets to remain untranslated,
much in the same way as
.Pa drop <direction> quick
works in the packet filter.
.Pp
If no rule matches the packet, the default action is to pass the packet
up to the filter unmodified.
Translation occurs before the other filters are applied.
Hence, rules for redirected packets should specify the address and port
after translation.
Translation rules apply only to packets that pass through
the specified interface.
For instance, redirecting port 80 on an external interface to an internal
web server will only work for connections originating from the outside.
Connections to the address of the external interface from local hosts will
not be redirected, since such packets do not actually pass through the
external interface.
Redirections cannot reflect packets back through the interface they arrive
on, they can only be redirected to hosts connected to different interfaces
or to the firewall itself.
.Pp
.Sh PACKET FILTERING
.Xr pf 4
has the ability to
.Pa block
and
.Pa pass
packets based on a variety of attributes of their layer 2 (see
.Xr ip 4
and
.Xr ip6 4 Ns )
and layer 3 (see
.Xr tcp 4 ,
.Xr udp 4 ,
.Xr icmp 4 ,
and
.Xr icmp6 4 Ns )
headers.
In addition, packets which are passed or blocked can be
assigned to queues for the purpose of bandwidth control.
.Pp
For each packet processed by the packet filter, the filter rules are
evaluated in sequential order, from first to last.
The last matching rule decides what action is taken.
.Pp
The following actions can be used in the filter:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width xxxx
.It Em block
The packet is blocked.
There are a number of ways in which a
.Pa block
rule can behave when blocking a packet. The default behaviour is to
.Pa drop
packets silently, however this can be overridden or made explicit
globally by setting the
.Pa 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.
.El
.Pp
If no rule matches the packet, the default action is
.Pa pass .
.Pp
To block everything by default and only pass packets
that match explicit rules, one uses
.Bd -literal
block in all
block out all
.Ed
.Pp
as the first two rules.
.Sh PARAMETERS
The rule parameters specify for what packets a rule applies.
A packet always comes in on or goes out through one interface.
Most parameters are optional.
If a parameter is specified, the rule only applies to packets with
matching attributes.
Certain parameters can be expressed as lists, in which case
.Xr pfctl 8
generates all needed rule combinations:
.Bl -tag -width xxxx
.It Pa in No or Pa out
The rule applies to incoming or outgoing packets.
Either
.Pa in
or
.Pa out
must be specified.
To cover both directions, two rules are needed.
.It Em log
In addition to the action specified, a log message is generated.
Not only the packet that creates state is logged, but all packets of
the connection.
The logged packets are sent to the
.Xr pflog 4
interface.
This interface is monitored by the
.Xr pflogd 8
logging daemon which dumps the logged packets to the file
.Pa /var/log/pflog
in
.Xr pcap 3
binary format.
.It Em log-all
Used with
.Sq keep state
or
.Sq modulate state
rules.
The same rules as for
.Pa log
regarding
.Xr pflog 4
also apply to
.Pa log-all .
.It Pa quick
If a packet matches a rule which has the
.Sq quick
option set, this rule
is considered the last matching rule, and evaluation of subsequent rules
is skipped.
.It Pa on No <interface>
The rule applies only to packets coming in on or going out through this
particular interface.
.It <af>
The rule applies only to packets of this address family.
Supported values are inet and inet6.
.It Pa proto No <protocol>
The rule applies only to packets of this protocol.
Common protocols used here are tcp, udp, icmp and ipv6-icmp.
.It Pa from <source> port <source> to <dest> port <dest>
The rule applies only to packets with the specified source and destination
addresses/ports.
.Pp
Addresses can be specified in CIDR notation (matching netblocks), as
symbolic host names or interface names, or as any of the following keywords:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width no-route -compact
.It Em any
means any address;
.It Em no-route
means any address which is not currently routable.
.El
.Pp
Host name resolution and interface to address translation are done at
rule set load-time.
When the address of an interface (or host name) changes (by DHCP or PPP,
for instance), the rule set must be reloaded for the change to be reflected
in the kernel.
Interface names surrounded by parentheses cause an automatic update of
the rule whenever the referenced interface changes its address.
Reloading the rule set is not required in this case.
.Pp
Ports can be specified using these operators
.Bd -literal
= (equal), != (unequal), < (lesser), <= (lesser or equal),
> (greater), >= (greater or equal),
>< (range) and <> (except range).
.Ed
.Pp
>< and <> are binary operators (they take two arguments), and the range
does not include the limits, for instance:
.Bl -tag -width Fl
.It Em port 2000 >< 2004
means
.Sq all ports > 2000 and < 2004 ,
hence ports 2001, 2002 and 2003.
.It Em port 2000 <> 2004
means
.Sq all ports < 2000 or > 2004 ,
hence ports 1-1999 and 2005-65535.
.El
.Pp
The host and port specifications are optional, as the following examples
show:
.Bd -literal
pass in all
pass in from any to any
pass in proto tcp from any port <= 1024 to any
pass in proto tcp from any to any port 25
pass in proto tcp from 10.0.0.0/8 port > 1024 to \\
! 10.1.2.3 port != 22
.Ed
.It Pa user <user> group <group>
The rule only applies to packets of sockets owned by the specified user
and group.
For outgoing connections initiated from the firewall, this is the user
that opened the connection.
For incoming connections to the firewall itself, this is the user that
listens on the destination port.
For forwarded connections, where the firewall is not a connection endpoint,
the user and group are
.Pa unknown .
.Pp
All packets, both outgoing and incoming, of one connection are associated
with the same user and group.
Only TCP and UDP packets can be associated with users, for other protocols
these parameters are ignored.
.Pp
User and group refer to the effective (as opposed to the real) IDs, in
case the socket is created by a setuid/setgid process.
User and group IDs are stored when a socket is created;
when a process creates a listening socket as root (for instance, by
binding to a privileged port) and subsequently changes to another
user ID (to drop privileges), the credentials will remain root.
.Pp
User and group IDs can be specified as either numbers or names, the
syntax is similar to the one for ports.
The value
.Pa unknown
matches packets of forwarded connections.
.Pa unknown
can only be used with operators = and !=, other constructs
like 'user >= unknown' are invalid.
Forwarded packets with unknown user and group ID match only rules
that explicitly compare against
.Pa unknown
with operator = or !=, for instance 'user >= 0' does not match
forwarded packets.
The following example allows only selected users to open outgoing
connections:
.Bd -literal
block out proto { tcp, udp } all
pass out proto { tcp, udp } all \\
user { < 1000, dhartmei } keep state
.Ed
.It Pa flags <a>/<b> | /<b>
The rule only applies to TCP packets that have the flags <a> set
out of set <b>.
Flags not specified in <b> are ignored.
If <b> is not set, all flags are specified.
The flags are: (F)IN, (S)YN, (R)ST, (P)USH, (A)CK, (U)RG, (E)CE, and C(W)R.
.Bl -tag -width Fl
.It Em flags S/S
Flag SYN is set.
The other flags are ignored.
.It Em flags S/SA
Of SYN and ACK, exactly SYN is set.
SYN, SYN+PSH, SYN+RST match, but SYN+ACK, ACK and ACK+RST do not.
This is more restrictive than the previous example.
.It Em flags /SFRA
If the first set is not specified, it defaults to none.
All of SYN, FIN, RST and ACK must be unset.
.El
.It Pa icmp-type <type> code <code> and ipv6-icmp-type <type> code <code>
The rule only applies to ICMP or ICMPv6 packets with the specified type
and code.
This parameter is only valid for rules that cover protocols icmp or
ipv6-icmp.
The protocol and the icmp type indicator (icmp-type or ipv6-icmp-type)
must match.
.It Pa allow-opts
By default, packets which contain IP options are blocked.
When
.Pa allow-opts
is specified for a
.Pa pass
rule, packets that pass the filter based on that rule (last matching)
do so even if they contain IP options.
For packets that match state, the rule that initially created the
state is used.
The implicit
.Pa pass
rule that is used when a packet does not match any rules does not
allow IP options.
.It Pa label <string>
Adds a label (name) to the rule, which can be used to identify the rule.
For instance,
.Pa pfctl -s labels
shows per-rule statistics for rules that have labels.
.Pp
The following macros can be used in labels:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width $srcaddr -compact -offset indent
.It Em $if
the interface.
.It Em $srcaddr
the source IP address.
.It Em $dstaddr
the destination IP address.
.It Em $srcport
the source port specification.
.It Em $dstport
the destination port specification.
.It Em $proto
the protocol name.
.It Em $nr
the rule number.
.El
.Pp
For example:
.Pp
.Bd -literal
ips = "{ 1.2.3.4, 1.2.3.5 }"
pass in proto tcp from any to $ips port >1023 \\
label "$dstaddr:$dstport"
.Ed
.Pp
expands to
.Bd -literal
pass in proto tcp from any to 1.2.3.4 port >1023 \\
label "1.2.3.4:>1023"
pass in proto tcp from any to 1.2.3.5 port >1023 \\
label "1.2.3.5:>1023"
.Ed
.Pp
Variable expansion takes place at configuration file parse time.
.It Pa queue <string>
Packets matching this rule will be assigned to the specified queue.
See QUEUE RULES for setup details.
.Pp
For example:
.Pp
.Bd -literal
pass in proto tcp from any to any port 25 queue mail
.Ed
.El
.Pp
.Sh ROUTING
If a packet matches a rule with a route option set, the packet filter will
route the packet according to the type of route option.
When such a rule creates state, the route option is also applied to all
packets matching the same connection.
.Bl -tag -width xxxx
.It Pa fastroute
The
.Pa fastroute
option does a normal route lookup to find the next hop for the packet.
.It Pa route-to
The
.Pa route-to
option routes the packet to the specified interface with an optional address
for the next hop.
When a
.Pa route-to
rule creates state, only packets that pass in the same direction as the
filter rule specifies will be routed in this way.
Packets passing in the opposite direction (replies) are not affected
and routed normally.
.It Pa reply-to
The
.Pa reply-to
option is similar to
.Pa route-to
but routes packets that pass in the opposite direction (replies) to the
specified interface.
Opposite direction is only defined in context of a state entry, and
.Pa route-to
is useful only in rules that create state.
It can be used on systems with multiple external connections to
route all outgoing packets of a connection through the interface
the incoming connection arrived through (symmetric routing enforcement).
.It Pa dup-to
The
.Pa dup-to
option creates a duplicate of the packet and routes it like
.Pa route-to.
The original packet gets routed as it normally would.
.El
.Pp
.Sh POOL OPTIONS
For
.Pa nat
and
.Pa rdr
rules, (as well as for the
.Pa route-to ,
.Pa reply-to
and
.Pa dup-to
rule options) for which there is a single redirection address which has a
subnet mask smaller than 32 for IPv4 or 128 for IPv6 (more than one IP
address), a variety of different methods for assigning this address can be
used:
.Bl -tag -width xxxx
.It Em bitmask
The
.Pa bitmask
option applies the network portion of the redirection address to the address
to be modified (source with nat, destination with rdr).
.It Em random
The
.Pa random
option selects an address at random within the defined block of addresses.
.It Em source-hash
The
.Pa source-hash
option uses a hash of the source address to determine the redirection address,
ensuring that the redirection address is always the same for a given source. An
optional key can be specified after this keyword either in hex or as a string;
by default pfctl randomly generates a key for source-hash every time the
ruleset is reloaded.
.It Em round-robin
The
.Pa round-robin
option loops through the redirection address(s).
.Pp
When more than one redirection address is specified,
.Pa round-robin
is the only permitted pool type.
.It Pa static-port
With
.Pa nat
rules, the
.Pa static-port
option prevents
.Xr pf 4
from modifying the source port on tcp and udp packets.
.El
.Sh STATEFUL INSPECTION
.Xr pf 4
is a stateful packet filter, which means it can track the state of
a connection.
Instead of passing all traffic to port 25, for instance, one can pass
only the initial packet and keep state.
.Pp
If a packet matches a pass ... keep state rule, the filter creates
a state for this connection and automatically lets pass all following
packets of that connection.
.Pp
Before any rules are evaluated, the filter checks whether the packet
matches any state.
If it does, the packet is passed without evaluation of any rules.
.Pp
States are removed after the connection is closed or has timed out.
.Pp
This has several advantages.
Comparing a packet to a state involves checking its sequence numbers.
If the sequence numbers are outside the narrow windows of expected
values, the packet is dropped.
This prevents spoofing attacks, where the attacker sends packets with
a fake source address/port but does not know the connection's sequence
numbers.
.Pp
Also, looking up states is usually faster than evaluating rules.
If one has 50 rules, all of them are evaluated sequentially in O(n).
Even with 50000 states, only 16 comparisons are needed to match a
state, since states are stored in a binary search tree that allows
searches in O(log2 n).
.Pp
For instance:
.Bd -literal
block out all
block in all
pass out proto tcp from any to any flags S/SA keep state
pass in proto tcp from any to any port 25 flags S/SA keep state
.Ed
.Pp
This rule set blocks everything by default.
Only outgoing connections and incoming connection to port 25 are allowed.
The inital packet of each connection has the SYN flag set, will be passed
and creates state.
All further packets of these connections are passed if they match a state.
.Pp
Specifying flags S/SA restricts state creation to the initial SYN
packet of the TCP handshake.
One can also be less restrictive, and allow state creation from
intermediate
.Pq non-SYN
packets.
This will cause
.Xr pf 4
to synchronize to existing connections, for instance
if one flushes the state table.
.Pp
For UDP, which is stateless by nature, keep state will create state
as well.
UDP packets are matched to states using only host addresses and ports.
.Pp
ICMP messages fall in two categories: ICMP error messages, which always
refer to a TCP or UDP packet, are matched against the refered to connection.
If one keeps state on a TCP connection, and an ICMP source quench message
referring to this TCP connection arrives, it will be matched to the right
state and get passed.
.Pp
For ICMP queries, keep state creates an ICMP state, and
.Xr pf 4
knows how to match ICMP replies to states.
For example,
.Bd -literal
pass out inet proto icmp all icmp-type echoreq keep state
.Ed
.Pp
allows echo requests,
e.g as created by
.Xr ping 8 ,
out, creates state, and matches incoming echo replies correctly to states.
.Pp
Note:
.Pa nat No or Pa rdr
rules implicitly create state for connections.
.Sh STATE MODULATION
Much of the security derived from TCP is attributable to how well the
initial sequence numbers (ISNs) are chosen.
Some popular stack implementations choose
.Cm very
poor ISNs and thus are normally susceptible to ISN prediction exploits.
By applying a "modulate state" rule to a TCP connection,
.Xr pf 4
will create a high quality random sequence number for each connection
endpoint.
.Pp
The "modulate state" directive implicitly keeps state on the rule and is
only applicable to TCP connections.
.Pp
For instance:
.Bd -literal
block out all
block in all
pass out proto tcp from any to any modulate state
pass in proto tcp from any to any port 25 flags S/SA modulate state
.Ed
.Pp
Caveat: If
.Xr pf 4
picks up an already established connection
.Po
the firewall was rebooted, the state table was flushed, ...
.Pc
it will not be able to safely modulate the state of that connection.
.Xr pf 4
will fall back and operate as if "keep state" was specified instead.
Without this fallback, modulation would cause each host to
think that the other end had somehow lost sync.
.Pp
Caveat: If the state table is flushed or the firewall is rebooted,
currently modulated connections can not be continued or picked
up again by the firewall.
State modulation causes the firewall to phase
shift the sequencing of each side of a connection
.Po
add a random number to each side.
.Pc
Both sides of the connection will notice, that its peer has suddenly
shifted its sequence by a random amount.
Neither side
will be able to recover and the connection will stall and eventually close.
.Sh STATEFUL TRACKING OPTIONS
Both
.Pa keep state
and
.Pa modulate state
support the following options:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width timeout_seconds -compact
.It Em max number
Limits the number of concurrent states the rule may create.
When this limit is reached, further packets matching the rule that would
create state are dropped, until existing states time out.
.It Em timeout seconds
Changes the timeout values used for states created by this rule.
For a list of all valid timeout names, see
.Xr pfctl 8 .
.El
.Pp
Multiple options can be specified, separated by commas:
.Bd -literal
pass in proto tcp from any to any port www flags S/SA \\
keep state (max 100, tcp.established 60, tcp.closing 5)
.Ed
.Sh BLOCKING SPOOFED TRAFFIC
"Spoofing" is the faking of IP addresses, typically for malicious
purposes.
The
.Pa antispoof
directive expands to a set of filter rules which will block all
traffic with a source IP from the network(s) directly connected
to the specified interface(s) from entering the system through
any other interface.
.Pp
For example, the line
.Bd -literal
antispoof for lo0
.Ed
.Pp
expands to
.Bd -literal
block in on ! lo0 inet from 127.0.0.1/8 to any
block in on ! lo0 inet6 from ::1 to any
.Ed
.Pp
For non-loopback interfaces, there are additional rules to block incoming
packets with a source IP address identical to the interface's IP(s).
For example, assuming the interface wi0 had an IP address of 10.0.0.1 and a
netmask of 255.255.255.0,
the line
.Bd -literal
antispoof for wi0 inet
.Ed
.Pp
expands to
.Bd -literal
block in on ! wi0 inet from 10.0.0.1/24 to any
block in inet from 10.0.0.1 to any
.Ed
.Pp
Caveat: Rules created by the
.Pa antispoof
directive interfere with packets sent over loopback interfaces
to local addresses.
One should pass these explicitly.
.Sh FRAGMENT HANDLING
The size of IP datagrams (packets) can be significantly larger than the
the maximum transmission unit (MTU) of the network.
In cases when it is necessary or more efficient to send such large packets,
the large packet will be fragmented into many smaller packets that will each
fit onto the wire.
Unfortunately for a firewalling device, only the first logical fragment will
contain the necessary header information for the subprotocol that allows
.Xr pf 4
to filter on things such as TCP ports or to perform NAT.
.Pp
Besides the use of
.Pa scrub
rules as described in
.Pa TRAFFIC NORMALIZATION
above, there are three options for handling fragments in the packet filter
.Pp
The alternative is to filter individual fragments with filter rules.
If no
.Pa scrub
rule applies to a fragment, it is passed to the filter.
Filter rules with matching IP header parameters decide whether the
fragment is passed or blocked, in the same way as complete packets
are filtered.
Without reassembly, fragments can only be filtered based on IP header
fields (source/destination address, protocol), since subprotocol header
fields are not available (TCP/UDP port numbers, ICMP code/type).
The
.Pa fragment
option can be used to restrict filter rules to apply only to
fragments but not complete packets.
Filter rules without the
.Pa fragment
option still apply to fragments, if they only specify IP header fields.
For instance, the rule
.Pp
.Bd -literal
pass in proto tcp from any to any port 80
.Ed
.Pp never applies to a fragment, even if the fragment is part of a TCP
packet with destination port 80, because without reassembly, this information
is not available for each fragment.
This also means that fragments cannot create new or match existing
state table entries, which makes stateful filtering and address
translations (NAT, redirection) for fragments impossible.
.Pp
It's also possible to reassemble only certain fragments by specifying
source or destination addresses or protocols as parameters in scrub
rules.
.Pp
In most cases, the benefits of reassembly outweigh the additional
memory cost, and it's recommended to use scrub rules to reassemble
all fragments via the
.Pa fragment reassemble
modifier.
.Pp
The memory allocated for fragment caching can be limited using
.Xr pfctl 8 .
Once this limit is reached, fragments that would have to be cached
are dropped until other entries time out. The timeout value can
also be adjusted.
.Pp
Currently, only IPv4 fragments are supported and IPv6 fragments
are blocked unconditionally.
.Sh TRANSLATION EXAMPLES
This example maps incoming requests on port 80 to port 8080, on
which Apache Tomcat is running (say Tomcat is not run as root,
therefore lacks permission to bind to port 80).
.Bd -literal
# map tomcat on 8080 to appear to be on 80
rdr on ne3 proto tcp from any to any port 80 -> 127.0.0.1 port 8080
.Ed
.Pp
In the example below, vlan12 is configured for the 192.168.168.1;
the machine translates all packets coming from 192.168.168.0/24 to 204.92.77.111
when they are going out any interface except vlan12.
This has the net effect of making traffic from the 192.168.168.0/24
network appear as though it is the Internet routeable address
204.92.77.111 to nodes behind any interface on the router except
for the nodes on vlan12.
(Thus, 192.168.168.1 can talk to the 192.168.168.0/24 nodes.)
.Bd -literal
nat on ! vlan12 from 192.168.168.0/24 to any -> 204.92.77.111
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.Pp
In the example below, fxp1 is the outside interface; the machine sits between a
fake internal 144.19.74.* network, and a routable external IP of 204.92.77.100.
The
.Pa no nat
rule excludes protocol AH from being translated.
.Bd -literal
# NO NAT
no nat on fxp1 proto ah from 144.19.74.0/24 to any
nat on fxp1 from 144.19.74.0/24 to any -> 204.92.77.100
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.Pp
In the example below, fxp0 is the internal interface.
Packets bound
for one specific server, as well as those generated by the sysadmins
are not proxied, all other connections are.
.Bd -literal
# NO RDR
no rdr on fxp0 from any to $server port 80
no rdr on fxp0 from $sysadmins to any port 80
rdr on fxp0 from any to any port 80 -> 127.0.0.1 port 80
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.Pp
This longer example uses both a NAT and a redirection.
Interface kue0 is the outside interface, and its external address is
157.161.48.183.
Interface fxp0 is the inside interface, and we are running
.Xr ftp-proxy 8
listening for outbound ftp sessions captured to port 8081.
.Bd -literal
# NAT
# translate outgoing packets' source addresses (any protocol)
# in this case, any address but the gateway's external address is mapped
nat on kue0 inet from ! (kue0) to any -> (kue0)
# NAT PROXYING
# map outgoing packets' source port to an assigned proxy port instead of
# an arbitrary port
# in this case, proxy outgoing isakmp with port 500 on the gateway
nat on kue0 inet proto udp from any port = isakmp to any -> (kue0) \\
port 500
# BINAT
# translate outgoing packets' source address (any protocol)
# translate incoming packets' destination address to an internal machine
# (bidirectional)
binat on kue0 from 10.1.2.150 to any -> (kue0)
# RDR
# translate incoming packets' destination addresses
# as an example, redirect a TCP and UDP port to an internal machine
rdr on kue0 inet proto tcp from any to (kue0) port 8080 -> 10.1.2.151 \\
port 22
rdr on kue0 inet proto udp from any to (kue0) port 8080 -> 10.1.2.151 \\
port 53
# RDR
# translate outgoing ftp control connections to send them to localhost
# for proxying with ftp-proxy(8) running on port 8081
rdr on fxp0 proto tcp from any to any port 21 -> 127.0.0.1 port 8081
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.Sh FILTER EXAMPLES
.Bd -literal
# The external interface is kue0
# (157.161.48.183, the only routable address)
# and the private network is 10.0.0.0/8, for which we are doing NAT.
# use a macro for the interface name, so it can be changed easily
ext_if = "kue0"
# normalize all incoming traffic
scrub in on $ext_if all fragment reassemble
# block and log everything by default
block out log on $ext_if all
block in log on $ext_if all
block return-rst out log on $ext_if proto tcp all
block return-rst in log on $ext_if proto tcp all
block return-icmp out log on $ext_if proto udp all
block return-icmp in log on $ext_if proto udp all
# block anything coming from source we have no back routes for
block in from no-route to any
# block and log outgoing packets that do not have our address as source,
# they are either spoofed or something is misconfigured (NAT disabled,
# for instance), we want to be nice and do not send out garbage.
block out log quick on $ext_if from ! 157.161.48.183 to any
# silently drop broadcasts (cable modem noise)
block in quick on $ext_if from any to 255.255.255.255
# block and log incoming packets from reserved address space and invalid
# addresses, they are either spoofed or misconfigured, we cannot reply to
# them anyway (hence, no return-rst).
block in log quick on $ext_if from { 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, \\
192.168.0.0/16, 255.255.255.255/32 } to any
# ICMP
# pass out/in certain ICMP queries and keep state (ping)
# state matching is done on host addresses and ICMP id (not type/code),
# so replies (like 0/0 for 8/0) will match queries
# ICMP error messages (which always refer to a TCP/UDP packet) are
# handled by the TCP/UDP states
pass out on $ext_if inet proto icmp all icmp-type 8 code 0 keep state
pass in on $ext_if inet proto icmp all icmp-type 8 code 0 keep state
# UDP
# pass out all UDP connections and keep state
pass out on $ext_if proto udp all keep state
# pass in certain UDP connections and keep state (DNS)
pass in on $ext_if proto udp from any to any port domain keep state
# TCP
# pass out all TCP connections and modulate state
pass out on $ext_if proto tcp all modulate state
# pass in certain TCP connections and keep state (SSH, SMTP, DNS, IDENT)
pass in on $ext_if proto tcp from any to any port { ssh, smtp, domain, \\
auth } flags S/SA keep state
# pass in data mode connections for ftp-proxy running on this host.
# (see ftp-proxy(8) for details)
pass in on $ext_if proto tcp from any to 157.161.48.183 port >= 49152 \\
flags S/SA keep state
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.Sh GRAMMAR
Syntax for
.Nm
in BNF:
.Bd -literal
line = ( option | pf_rule | nat_rule | binat_rule | rdr_rule |
antispoof_rule | altq_rule | queue_rule )
option = set ( [ "timeout" ( timeout | "{" timeout-list "}" ) ] |
[ "optimization" [ "default" | "normal" |
"high-latency" | "satellite" |
"aggressive" | "conservative" ] ]
[ "limit" ( limit | "{" limit-list "}" ) ] |
[ "loginterface" ( interface-name | "none" ) ] |
[ "block-policy" ( "drop" | "return" ) ] |
[ "require-order" ( "yes" | "no" ) ] ).
pf_rule = action ( "in" | "out" )
[ "log" | "log-all" ] [ "quick" ]
[ "on" ifspec ] [ route ] [ af ] [ protospec ]
hosts
[ user ] [ group ] [ flags ]
[ icmp-type | ipv6-icmp-type ] [ tos ]
[ ( "keep" | "modulate" ) "state" [ "(" state-opts ")" ] ]
[ "fragment" ] [ "no-df" ] [ "min-ttl" number ]
[ "max-mss" number ] [ fragmentation ] [ "allow-opts" ]
[ "label" string ] .
nat_rule = [ "no" ] "nat" "on" ifspec [ af ] [ protospec ] hosts
"from" ipspec "to" ipspec [ portspec ]
[ "->" ( redirhost | "{" redirhost-list "}" )
[ portspec ] ] [ pooltype ] [ "static-port" ].
binat_rule = [ "no" ] "binat" "on" interface-name [ af ]
[ "proto" ( proto-name | proto-number ) ]
"from" address [ "/" mask-bits ] "to" ipspec
[ "->" address [ "/" mask-bits ] ] .
rdr_rule = [ "no" ] "rdr" "on" ifspec [ af ] [ protospec ]
"from" ipspec "to" ipspec [ portspec ]
[ "->" ( redirhost | "{" redirhost-list "}" )
[ portspec ] ] [ pooltype ] .
antispoof_rule = "antispoof" [ "log" ] [ "quick" ]
"for" ( interface-name | "{" interface-list "}" )
[ af ] .
altq_rule = "altq" "on" interface-name "scheduler" "cbq"
[ "bandwidth" number ( "b" | "Kb" | "Mb" | "Gb" ) ]
"queue" ( string | "{" queue-list "}" ) .
queue_rule = "queue" string "bandwidth" number
( "b" | "Kb" | "Mb" | "Gb" | "%" )
[ "priority" number ] [ cbq-def ]
[ string | "{" queue-list "}" ] .
action = "pass" | "block" [ return ] | "scrub" .
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 ] .
route = "fastroute" |
( "route-to" | "reply-to" | "dup-to" )
( routehost | "{" routehost-list "}" )
[ pooltype ] .
af = "inet" | "inet6" .
protospec = "proto" ( proto-name | proto-number |
"{" proto-list "}" ) .
proto-list = ( proto-name | proto-number ) [ [ "," ] proto-list ] .
hosts = "all" |
"from" ( "any" | "no-route" | "self" | host |
"{" host-list "}" ) [ port ]
"to" ( "any" | "no-route" | "self" | host |
"{" host-list "}" ) [ port ] .
ipspec = "any" | host | "{" host-list "}" .
host = [ "!" ] address [ "/" mask-bits ] .
redirhost = address [ "/" mask-bits ] .
routehost = ( interface-name [ address [ "/" mask-bits ] ] )
address = ( interface-name | "(" interface-name ")" | host-name |
ipv4-dotted-quad | ipv6-coloned-hex ) .
host-list = host [ [ "," ] host-list ] .
redirost-list = redirhost [ [","] redirhost-list ] .
routehost-list = routehost [ [","] routehost-list ] .
port = "port" ( unary-op | binary-op | "{" op-list "}" ) .
portspec = "port" ( number | name ) [ ":" ( "*" | number | name ) ] .
user = "user" ( unary-op | binary-op | "{" op-list "}" ) .
group = "group" ( unary-op | binary-op | "{" op-list "}" ) .
unary-op = [ "=" | "!=" | "<" | "<=" | ">" | ">=" ]
( name | number ) .
binary-op = number ( "<>" | "><" ) number .
op-list = ( unary-op | binary-op ) [ [ "," ] op-list ] .
flags = "flags" ( flag-set | flag-set "/" flag-set |
"/" flag-set ) .
flag-set = [ "F" ] [ "S" ] [ "R" ] [ "P" ] [ "A" ] [ "U" ] [ "E" ]
[ "W" ] .
icmp-type = "icmp-type" ( icmp-type-code | "{" icmp-list "}" ) .
ipv6-icmp-type = "ipv6-icmp-type" ( icmp-type-code | "{" icmp-list "}" ) .
icmp-type-code = ( icmp-type-name | icmp-type-number )
[ "code" ( icmp-code-name | icmp-code-number ) ] .
icmp-list = icmp-type-code [ [ "," ] icmp-list ] .
tos = "tos" ( "lowdelay" | "throughput" | "reliability" |
[ "0x" ] number ) .
state-opts = state-opt [ [ "," ] state-opts ] .
state-opt = ( "max" number ) | ( timeout seconds ) .
fragmentation = [ "fragment reassemble" | "fragment crop" |
"fragment drop-ovl" ] .
timeout-list = timeout [ [ "," ] timeout-list ] .
timeout = ( "tcp.first" | "tcp.opening" | "tcp.established" |
"tcp.closing" | "tcp.finwait" | "tcp.closed" |
"udp.first" | "udp.single" | "udp.multiple" |
"icmp.first" | "icmp.error" |
"other.first" | "other.multiple" ) seconds .
seconds = number .
limit-list = limit [ [ "," ] limit-list ] .
limit = ( "states" | "frags" ) number .
pooltype = ( "bitmask" | "random" |
"source-hash" [ ( hex-key | string-key ) ] |
"round-robin" ) .
queue-list = string [ [ "," ] string ] .
cbq-def = "cbq" [ "(" cbq-type [ [ "," ] cbq-type ] ")" ] .
cbq-type = ( "default" | "control" | "borrow" |
"red" | "ecn" | "rio" ) .
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.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width "/etc/protocols" -compact
.It Pa /etc/hosts
Host name database
.It Pa /etc/pf.conf
Default location of the ruleset file
.It Pa /etc/protocols
Protocol name database
.It Pa /etc/services
Service name database
.It Pa /usr/share/pf
Example rulesets
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr pf 4 ,
.Xr hosts 5 ,
.Xr protocols 5 ,
.Xr services 5 ,
.Xr ftp-proxy 8 ,
.Xr pfctl 8 ,
.Xr pflogd 8 ,
.Xr ip 4 ,
.Xr ip6 4 ,
.Xr tcp 4 ,
.Xr udp 4 ,
.Xr icmp 4 ,
.Xr icmp6 4
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
file format appeared in
.Ox 3.0 .
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