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30.Dd January 9, 2025
31.Dt PF.CONF 5
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm pf.conf
35.Nd packet filter configuration file
36.Sh DESCRIPTION
37The
38.Xr pf 4
39packet filter modifies, drops or passes packets according to rules or
40definitions specified in
41.Nm pf.conf .
42.Sh STATEMENT ORDER
43There are eight types of statements in
44.Nm pf.conf :
45.Bl -tag -width xxxx
46.It Cm Macros
47User-defined variables may be defined and used later, simplifying
48the configuration file.
49Macros must be defined before they are referenced in
50.Nm pf.conf .
51.It Cm Tables
52Tables provide a mechanism for increasing the performance and flexibility of
53rules with large numbers of source or destination addresses.
54.It Cm Options
55Options tune the behaviour of the packet filtering engine.
56.It Cm Ethernet Filtering
57Ethernet filtering provides rule-based blocking or passing of Ethernet packets.
58.It Cm Traffic Normalization Li (e.g. Em scrub )
59Traffic normalization protects internal machines against inconsistencies
60in Internet protocols and implementations.
61.It Cm Queueing
62Queueing provides rule-based bandwidth control.
63.It Cm Translation Li (Various forms of NAT)
64Translation rules specify how addresses are to be mapped or redirected to
65other addresses.
66.It Cm Packet Filtering
67Packet filtering provides rule-based blocking or passing of packets.
68.El
69.Pp
70With the exception of
71.Cm macros
72and
73.Cm tables ,
74the types of statements should be grouped and appear in
75.Nm pf.conf
76in the order shown above, as this matches the operation of the underlying
77packet filtering engine.
78By default
79.Xr pfctl 8
80enforces this order (see
81.Ar set require-order
82below).
83.Pp
84Comments can be put anywhere in the file using a hash mark
85.Pq Sq # ,
86and extend to the end of the current line.
87.Pp
88Additional configuration files can be included with the
89.Ic include
90keyword, for example:
91.Bd -literal -offset indent
92include "/etc/pf/sub.filter.conf"
93.Ed
94.Sh MACROS
95Macros can be defined that will later be expanded in context.
96Macro names must start with a letter, and may contain letters, digits
97and underscores.
98Macro names may not be reserved words (for example
99.Ar pass ,
100.Ar in ,
101.Ar out ) .
102Macros are not expanded inside quotes.
103.Pp
104For example,
105.Bd -literal -offset indent
106ext_if = \&"kue0\&"
107all_ifs = \&"{\&" $ext_if lo0 \&"}\&"
108pass out on $ext_if from any to any
109pass in  on $ext_if proto tcp from any to any port 25
110.Ed
111.Sh TABLES
112Tables are named structures which can hold a collection of addresses and
113networks.
114Lookups against tables in
115.Xr pf 4
116are relatively fast, making a single rule with tables much more efficient,
117in terms of
118processor usage and memory consumption, than a large number of rules which
119differ only in IP address (either created explicitly or automatically by rule
120expansion).
121.Pp
122Tables can be used as the source or destination of filter rules,
123.Ar scrub
124rules
125or
126translation rules such as
127.Ar nat
128or
129.Ar rdr
130(see below for details on the various rule types).
131Tables can also be used for the redirect address of
132.Ar nat
133and
134.Ar rdr
135rules and in the routing options of filter rules, but only for
136.Ar round-robin
137pools.
138.Pp
139Tables can be defined with any of the following
140.Xr pfctl 8
141mechanisms.
142As with macros, reserved words may not be used as table names.
143.Bl -tag -width "manually"
144.It Ar manually
145Persistent tables can be manually created with the
146.Ar add
147or
148.Ar replace
149option of
150.Xr pfctl 8 ,
151before or after the ruleset has been loaded.
152.It Pa pf.conf
153Table definitions can be placed directly in this file, and loaded at the
154same time as other rules are loaded, atomically.
155Table definitions inside
156.Nm pf.conf
157use the
158.Ar table
159statement, and are especially useful to define non-persistent tables.
160The contents of a pre-existing table defined without a list of addresses
161to initialize it is not altered when
162.Nm pf.conf
163is loaded.
164A table initialized with the empty list,
165.Li { } ,
166will be cleared on load.
167.El
168.Pp
169Tables may be defined with the following attributes:
170.Bl -tag -width persist
171.It Ar persist
172The
173.Ar persist
174flag forces the kernel to keep the table even when no rules refer to it.
175If the flag is not set, the kernel will automatically remove the table
176when the last rule referring to it is flushed.
177.It Ar const
178The
179.Ar const
180flag prevents the user from altering the contents of the table once it
181has been created.
182Without that flag,
183.Xr pfctl 8
184can be used to add or remove addresses from the table at any time, even
185when running with
186.Xr securelevel 7
187= 2.
188.It Ar counters
189The
190.Ar counters
191flag enables per-address packet and byte counters which can be displayed with
192.Xr pfctl 8 .
193Note that this feature carries significant memory overhead for large tables.
194.El
195.Pp
196For example,
197.Bd -literal -offset indent
198table \*(Ltprivate\*(Gt const { 10/8, 172.16/12, 192.168/16 }
199table \*(Ltbadhosts\*(Gt persist
200block on fxp0 from { \*(Ltprivate\*(Gt, \*(Ltbadhosts\*(Gt } to any
201.Ed
202.Pp
203creates a table called private, to hold RFC 1918 private network
204blocks, and a table called badhosts, which is initially empty.
205A filter rule is set up to block all traffic coming from addresses listed in
206either table.
207The private table cannot have its contents changed and the badhosts table
208will exist even when no active filter rules reference it.
209Addresses may later be added to the badhosts table, so that traffic from
210these hosts can be blocked by using
211.Bd -literal -offset indent
212# pfctl -t badhosts -Tadd 204.92.77.111
213.Ed
214.Pp
215A table can also be initialized with an address list specified in one or more
216external files, using the following syntax:
217.Bd -literal -offset indent
218table \*(Ltspam\*(Gt persist file \&"/etc/spammers\&" file \&"/etc/openrelays\&"
219block on fxp0 from \*(Ltspam\*(Gt to any
220.Ed
221.Pp
222The files
223.Pa /etc/spammers
224and
225.Pa /etc/openrelays
226list IP addresses, one per line.
227Any lines beginning with a # are treated as comments and ignored.
228In addition to being specified by IP address, hosts may also be
229specified by their hostname.
230When the resolver is called to add a hostname to a table,
231.Em all
232resulting IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are placed into the table.
233IP addresses can also be entered in a table by specifying a valid interface
234name, a valid interface group or the
235.Em self
236keyword, in which case all addresses assigned to the interface(s) will be
237added to the table.
238.Sh OPTIONS
239.Xr pf 4
240may be tuned for various situations using the
241.Ar set
242command.
243.Bl -tag -width xxxx
244.It Ar set timeout
245.Pp
246.Bl -tag -width "src.track" -compact
247.It Ar interval
248Interval between purging expired states and fragments.
249.It Ar frag
250Seconds before an unassembled fragment is expired.
251.It Ar src.track
252Length of time to retain a source tracking entry after the last state
253expires.
254.El
255.Pp
256When a packet matches a stateful connection, the seconds to live for the
257connection will be updated to that of the
258.Ar proto.modifier
259which corresponds to the connection state.
260Each packet which matches this state will reset the TTL.
261Tuning these values may improve the performance of the
262firewall at the risk of dropping valid idle connections.
263.Pp
264.Bl -tag -width xxxx -compact
265.It Ar tcp.first
266The state after the first packet.
267.It Ar tcp.opening
268The state after the second packet but before both endpoints have
269acknowledged the connection.
270.It Ar tcp.established
271The fully established state.
272.It Ar tcp.closing
273The state after the first FIN has been sent.
274.It Ar tcp.finwait
275The state after both FINs have been exchanged and the connection is closed.
276Some hosts (notably web servers on Solaris) send TCP packets even after closing
277the connection.
278Increasing
279.Ar tcp.finwait
280(and possibly
281.Ar tcp.closing )
282can prevent blocking of such packets.
283.It Ar tcp.closed
284The state after one endpoint sends an RST.
285.El
286.Pp
287SCTP timeout are handled similar to TCP, but with its own set of states:
288.Pp
289.Bl -tag -width xxxx -compact
290.It Ar sctp.first
291The state after the first packet.
292.It Ar sctp.opening
293The state before the destination host ever sends a packet.
294.It Ar sctp.established
295The fully established state.
296.It Ar sctp.closing
297The state after the first SHUTDOWN chunk has been sent.
298.It Ar sctp.closed
299The state after SHUTDOWN_ACK has been exchanged and the connection is closed.
300.El
301.Pp
302ICMP and UDP are handled in a fashion similar to TCP, but with a much more
303limited set of states:
304.Pp
305.Bl -tag -width xxxx -compact
306.It Ar udp.first
307The state after the first packet.
308.It Ar udp.single
309The state if the source host sends more than one packet but the destination
310host has never sent one back.
311.It Ar udp.multiple
312The state if both hosts have sent packets.
313.It Ar icmp.first
314The state after the first packet.
315.It Ar icmp.error
316The state after an ICMP error came back in response to an ICMP packet.
317.El
318.Pp
319Other protocols are handled similarly to UDP:
320.Pp
321.Bl -tag -width xxxx -compact
322.It Ar other.first
323.It Ar other.single
324.It Ar other.multiple
325.El
326.Pp
327Timeout values can be reduced adaptively as the number of state table
328entries grows.
329.Pp
330.Bl -tag -width xxxx -compact
331.It Ar adaptive.start
332When the number of state entries exceeds this value, adaptive scaling
333begins.
334All timeout values are scaled linearly with factor
335(adaptive.end - number of states) / (adaptive.end - adaptive.start).
336.It Ar adaptive.end
337When reaching this number of state entries, all timeout values become
338zero, effectively purging all state entries immediately.
339This value is used to define the scale factor, it should not actually
340be reached (set a lower state limit, see below).
341.El
342.Pp
343Adaptive timeouts are enabled by default, with an adaptive.start value
344equal to 60% of the state limit, and an adaptive.end value equal to
345120% of the state limit.
346They can be disabled by setting both adaptive.start and adaptive.end to 0.
347.Pp
348The adaptive timeout values can be defined both globally and for each rule.
349When used on a per-rule basis, the values relate to the number of
350states created by the rule, otherwise to the total number of
351states.
352.Pp
353For example:
354.Bd -literal -offset indent
355set timeout tcp.first 120
356set timeout tcp.established 86400
357set timeout { adaptive.start 6000, adaptive.end 12000 }
358set limit states 10000
359.Ed
360.Pp
361With 9000 state table entries, the timeout values are scaled to 50%
362(tcp.first 60, tcp.established 43200).
363.It Ar set loginterface
364Enable collection of packet and byte count statistics for the given
365interface or interface group.
366These statistics can be viewed using
367.Bd -literal -offset indent
368# pfctl -s info
369.Ed
370.Pp
371In this example
372.Xr pf 4
373collects statistics on the interface named dc0:
374.Bd -literal -offset indent
375set loginterface dc0
376.Ed
377.Pp
378One can disable the loginterface using:
379.Bd -literal -offset indent
380set loginterface none
381.Ed
382.It Ar set limit
383Sets hard limits on the memory pools used by the packet filter.
384See
385.Xr zone 9
386for an explanation of memory pools.
387.Pp
388For example,
389.Bd -literal -offset indent
390set limit states 20000
391.Ed
392.Pp
393sets the maximum number of entries in the memory pool used by state table
394entries (generated by
395.Ar pass
396rules which do not specify
397.Ar no state )
398to 20000.
399Using
400.Bd -literal -offset indent
401set limit frags 20000
402.Ed
403.Pp
404sets the maximum number of entries in the memory pool used for fragment
405reassembly (generated by the
406.Ar set reassemble
407option or
408.Ar scrub
409rules) to 20000.
410Using
411.Bd -literal -offset indent
412set limit src-nodes 2000
413.Ed
414.Pp
415sets the maximum number of entries in the memory pool used for tracking
416source IP addresses (generated by the
417.Ar sticky-address
418and
419.Ar src.track
420options) to 2000.
421Using
422.Bd -literal -offset indent
423set limit table-entries 100000
424.Ed
425.Pp
426sets the limit on the overall number of addresses that can be stored
427in tables to 100000.
428.Pp
429Various limits can be combined on a single line:
430.Bd -literal -offset indent
431set limit { states 20000, frags 20000, src-nodes 2000 }
432.Ed
433.It Ar set ruleset-optimization
434.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxx -compact
435.It Ar none
436Disable the ruleset optimizer.
437.It Ar basic
438Enable basic ruleset optimization.
439This is the default behaviour.
440Basic ruleset optimization does four things to improve the
441performance of ruleset evaluations:
442.Pp
443.Bl -enum -compact
444.It
445remove duplicate rules
446.It
447remove rules that are a subset of another rule
448.It
449combine multiple rules into a table when advantageous
450.It
451re-order the rules to improve evaluation performance
452.El
453.Pp
454.It Ar profile
455Uses the currently loaded ruleset as a feedback profile to tailor the
456ordering of quick rules to actual network traffic.
457.El
458.Pp
459It is important to note that the ruleset optimizer will modify the ruleset
460to improve performance.
461A side effect of the ruleset modification is that per-rule accounting
462statistics will have different meanings than before.
463If per-rule accounting is important for billing purposes or whatnot,
464either the ruleset optimizer should not be used or a label field should
465be added to all of the accounting rules to act as optimization barriers.
466.Pp
467Optimization can also be set as a command-line argument to
468.Xr pfctl 8 ,
469overriding the settings in
470.Nm .
471.It Ar set optimization
472Optimize state timeouts for one of the following network environments:
473.Pp
474.Bl -tag -width xxxx -compact
475.It Ar normal
476A normal network environment.
477Suitable for almost all networks.
478.It Ar high-latency
479A high-latency environment (such as a satellite connection).
480.It Ar satellite
481Alias for
482.Ar high-latency .
483.It Ar aggressive
484Aggressively expire connections.
485This can greatly reduce the memory usage of the firewall at the cost of
486dropping idle connections early.
487.It Ar conservative
488Extremely conservative settings.
489Avoid dropping legitimate connections at the
490expense of greater memory utilization (possibly much greater on a busy
491network) and slightly increased processor utilization.
492.El
493.Pp
494For example:
495.Bd -literal -offset indent
496set optimization aggressive
497.Ed
498.It Ar set reassemble yes | no Op Cm no-df
499The
500.Cm reassemble
501option is used to enable or disable the reassembly of fragmented packets,
502and can be set to
503.Cm yes
504or
505.Cm no .
506If
507.Cm no-df
508is also specified, fragments with the
509.Dq dont-fragment
510bit set are reassembled too,
511instead of being dropped;
512the reassembled packet will have the
513.Dq dont-fragment
514bit cleared.
515The default value is
516.Cm no .
517.Pp
518This option is ignored if there are pre-FreeBSD 14
519.Cm scrub
520rules present.
521.It Ar set block-policy
522The
523.Ar block-policy
524option sets the default behaviour for the packet
525.Ar block
526action:
527.Pp
528.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxx -compact
529.It Ar drop
530Packet is silently dropped.
531.It Ar return
532A TCP RST is returned for blocked TCP packets,
533an SCTP ABORT chunk is returned for blocked SCTP packets,
534an ICMP UNREACHABLE is returned for blocked UDP packets,
535and all other packets are silently dropped.
536.El
537.Pp
538For example:
539.Bd -literal -offset indent
540set block-policy return
541.Ed
542.It Ar set fail-policy
543The
544.Ar fail-policy
545option sets the behaviour of rules which should pass a packet but were
546unable to do so.
547This might happen when a nat or route-to rule uses an empty table as list
548of targets or if a rule fails to create state or source node.
549The following
550.Ar block
551actions are possible:
552.Pp
553.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxx -compact
554.It Ar drop
555Incoming packet is silently dropped.
556.It Ar return
557Incoming packet is dropped and TCP RST is returned for TCP packets,
558an SCTP ABORT chunk is returned for blocked SCTP packets,
559an ICMP UNREACHABLE is returned for UDP packets,
560and no response is sent for other packets.
561.El
562.Pp
563For example:
564.Bd -literal -offset indent
565set fail-policy return
566.Ed
567.It Ar set state-policy
568The
569.Ar state-policy
570option sets the default behaviour for states:
571.Pp
572.Bl -tag -width group-bound -compact
573.It Ar if-bound
574States are bound to interface.
575.It Ar floating
576States can match packets on any interfaces (the default).
577.El
578.Pp
579For example:
580.Bd -literal -offset indent
581set state-policy if-bound
582.Ed
583.It Ar set syncookies never | always | adaptive
584When
585.Cm syncookies
586are active, pf will answer each incoming TCP SYN with a syncookie SYNACK,
587without allocating any resources.
588Upon reception of the client's ACK in response to the syncookie
589SYNACK, pf will evaluate the ruleset and create state if the ruleset
590permits it, complete the three way handshake with the target host and
591continue the connection with synproxy in place.
592This allows pf to be resilient against large synflood attacks which would
593run the state table against its limits otherwise.
594Due to the blind answers to every incoming SYN syncookies share the caveats of
595synproxy, namely seemingly accepting connections that will be dropped later on.
596.Pp
597.Bl -tag -width adaptive -compact
598.It Cm never
599pf will never send syncookie SYNACKs (the default).
600.It Cm always
601pf will always send syncookie SYNACKs.
602.It Cm adaptive
603pf will enable syncookie mode when a given percentage of the state table
604is used up by half-open TCP connections, as in, those that saw the initial
605SYN but didn't finish the three way handshake.
606The thresholds for entering and leaving syncookie mode can be specified using
607.Bd -literal -offset indent
608set syncookies adaptive (start 25%, end 12%)
609.Ed
610.El
611.It Ar set state-defaults
612The
613.Ar state-defaults
614option sets the state options for states created from rules
615without an explicit
616.Ar keep state .
617For example:
618.Bd -literal -offset indent
619set state-defaults no-sync
620.Ed
621.It Ar set hostid
622The 32-bit
623.Ar hostid
624identifies this firewall's state table entries to other firewalls
625in a
626.Xr pfsync 4
627failover cluster.
628By default the hostid is set to a pseudo-random value, however it may be
629desirable to manually configure it, for example to more easily identify the
630source of state table entries.
631.Bd -literal -offset indent
632set hostid 1
633.Ed
634.Pp
635The hostid may be specified in either decimal or hexadecimal.
636.It Ar set require-order
637By default
638.Xr pfctl 8
639enforces an ordering of the statement types in the ruleset to:
640.Em options ,
641.Em normalization ,
642.Em queueing ,
643.Em translation ,
644.Em filtering .
645Setting this option to
646.Ar no
647disables this enforcement.
648There may be non-trivial and non-obvious implications to an out of
649order ruleset.
650Consider carefully before disabling the order enforcement.
651.It Ar set fingerprints
652Load fingerprints of known operating systems from the given filename.
653By default fingerprints of known operating systems are automatically
654loaded from
655.Xr pf.os 5
656in
657.Pa /etc
658but can be overridden via this option.
659Setting this option may leave a small period of time where the fingerprints
660referenced by the currently active ruleset are inconsistent until the new
661ruleset finishes loading.
662.Pp
663For example:
664.Pp
665.Dl set fingerprints \&"/etc/pf.os.devel\&"
666.It Ar set skip on Aq Ar ifspec
667List interfaces for which packets should not be filtered.
668Packets passing in or out on such interfaces are passed as if pf was
669disabled, i.e. pf does not process them in any way.
670This can be useful on loopback and other virtual interfaces, when
671packet filtering is not desired and can have unexpected effects.
672For example:
673.Pp
674.Dl set skip on lo0
675.It Ar set debug
676Set the debug
677.Ar level
678to one of the following:
679.Pp
680.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxx -compact
681.It Ar none
682Don't generate debug messages.
683.It Ar urgent
684Generate debug messages only for serious errors.
685.It Ar misc
686Generate debug messages for various errors.
687.It Ar loud
688Generate debug messages for common conditions.
689.El
690.It Ar set keepcounters
691Preserve rule counters across rule updates.
692Usually rule counters are reset to zero on every update of the ruleset.
693With
694.Ar keepcounters
695set pf will attempt to find matching rules between old and new rulesets
696and preserve the rule counters.
697.El
698.Sh ETHERNET FILTERING
699.Xr pf 4
700has the ability to
701.Ar block
702and
703.Ar pass
704packets based on attributes of their Ethernet (layer 2) header.
705.Pp
706For each packet processed by the packet filter, the filter rules are
707evaluated in sequential order, from first to last.
708The last matching rule decides what action is taken.
709If no rule matches the packet, the default action is to pass
710the packet.
711.Pp
712The following actions can be used in the filter:
713.Bl -tag -width xxxx
714.It Ar block
715The packet is blocked.
716Unlike for layer 3 traffic the packet is always silently dropped.
717.It Ar pass
718The packet is passed;
719no state is created for layer 2 traffic.
720.El
721.Sh PARAMETERS
722The rule parameters specify the packets to which a rule applies.
723A packet always comes in on, or goes out through, one interface.
724Most parameters are optional.
725If a parameter is specified, the rule only applies to packets with
726matching attributes.
727Certain parameters can be expressed as lists, in which case
728.Xr pfctl 8
729generates all needed rule combinations.
730.Bl -tag -width xxxx
731.It Ar in No or Ar out
732This rule applies to incoming or outgoing packets.
733If neither
734.Ar in
735nor
736.Ar out
737are specified, the rule will match packets in both directions.
738.It Ar quick
739If a packet matches a rule which has the
740.Ar quick
741option set, this rule
742is considered the last matching rule, and evaluation of subsequent rules
743is skipped.
744.It Ar on Aq Ar ifspec
745This rule applies only to packets coming in on, or going out through, this
746particular interface or interface group.
747For more information on interface groups,
748see the
749.Ic group
750keyword in
751.Xr ifconfig 8 .
752.It Ar bridge-to Aq interface
753Packets matching this rule will be sent out of the specified interface without
754further processing.
755.It Ar proto Aq Ar protocol
756This rule applies only to packets of this protocol.
757Note that Ethernet protocol numbers are different from those used in
758.Xr ip 4
759and
760.Xr ip6 4 .
761.It Xo
762.Ar from Aq Ar source
763.Ar to Aq Ar dest
764.Xc
765This rule applies only to packets with the specified source and destination
766MAC addresses.
767.It Xo Ar queue Aq Ar queue
768.Xc
769Packets matching this rule will be assigned to the specified queue.
770See
771.Sx QUEUEING
772for setup details.
773.Pp
774.It Ar tag Aq Ar string
775Packets matching this rule will be tagged with the
776specified string.
777The tag acts as an internal marker that can be used to
778identify these packets later on.
779This can be used, for example, to provide trust between
780interfaces and to determine if packets have been
781processed by translation rules.
782Tags are
783.Qq sticky ,
784meaning that the packet will be tagged even if the rule
785is not the last matching rule.
786Further matching rules can replace the tag with a
787new one but will not remove a previously applied tag.
788A packet is only ever assigned one tag at a time.
789.It Ar tagged Aq Ar string
790Used to specify that packets must already be tagged with the given tag in order
791to match the rule.
792Inverse tag matching can also be done by specifying the !  operator before the
793tagged keyword.
794.El
795.Sh TRAFFIC NORMALIZATION
796Traffic normalization is a broad umbrella term
797for aspects of the packet filter which deal with
798verifying packets, packet fragments, spoofed traffic,
799and other irregularities.
800.Ss Scrub
801Scrub involves sanitising packet content in such a way
802that there are no ambiguities in packet interpretation on the receiving side.
803It is invoked with the
804.Cm scrub
805option, added to filter rules.
806.Pp
807Parameters are specified enclosed in parentheses.
808At least one of the following parameters must be specified:
809.Bl -tag -width xxxx
810.It Ar no-df
811Clears the
812.Ar dont-fragment
813bit from a matching IP packet.
814Some operating systems are known to generate fragmented packets with the
815.Ar dont-fragment
816bit set.
817This is particularly true with NFS.
818.Ar Scrub
819will drop such fragmented
820.Ar dont-fragment
821packets unless
822.Ar no-df
823is specified.
824.Pp
825Unfortunately some operating systems also generate their
826.Ar dont-fragment
827packets with a zero IP identification field.
828Clearing the
829.Ar dont-fragment
830bit on packets with a zero IP ID may cause deleterious results if an
831upstream router later fragments the packet.
832Using the
833.Ar random-id
834modifier (see below) is recommended in combination with the
835.Ar no-df
836modifier to ensure unique IP identifiers.
837.It Ar min-ttl Aq Ar number
838Enforces a minimum TTL for matching IP packets.
839.It Ar max-mss Aq Ar number
840Enforces a maximum MSS for matching TCP packets.
841.It Xo Ar set-tos Aq Ar string
842.No \*(Ba Aq Ar number
843.Xc
844Enforces a
845.Em TOS
846for matching IP packets.
847.Em TOS
848may be
849given as one of
850.Ar critical ,
851.Ar inetcontrol ,
852.Ar lowdelay ,
853.Ar netcontrol ,
854.Ar throughput ,
855.Ar reliability ,
856or one of the DiffServ Code Points:
857.Ar ef ,
858.Ar va ,
859.Ar af11 No ... Ar af43 ,
860.Ar cs0 No ... Ar cs7 ;
861or as either hex or decimal.
862.It Ar random-id
863Replaces the IP identification field with random values to compensate
864for predictable values generated by many hosts.
865This option only applies to packets that are not fragmented
866after the optional fragment reassembly.
867.It Ar reassemble tcp
868Statefully normalizes TCP connections.
869.Ar reassemble tcp
870performs the following normalizations:
871.Pp
872.Bl -tag -width timeout -compact
873.It ttl
874Neither side of the connection is allowed to reduce their IP TTL.
875An attacker may send a packet such that it reaches the firewall, affects
876the firewall state, and expires before reaching the destination host.
877.Ar reassemble tcp
878will raise the TTL of all packets back up to the highest value seen on
879the connection.
880.It timestamp modulation
881Modern TCP stacks will send a timestamp on every TCP packet and echo
882the other endpoint's timestamp back to them.
883Many operating systems will merely start the timestamp at zero when
884first booted, and increment it several times a second.
885The uptime of the host can be deduced by reading the timestamp and multiplying
886by a constant.
887Also observing several different timestamps can be used to count hosts
888behind a NAT device.
889And spoofing TCP packets into a connection requires knowing or guessing
890valid timestamps.
891Timestamps merely need to be monotonically increasing and not derived off a
892guessable base time.
893.Ar reassemble tcp
894will cause
895.Ar scrub
896to modulate the TCP timestamps with a random number.
897.It extended PAWS checks
898There is a problem with TCP on long fat pipes, in that a packet might get
899delayed for longer than it takes the connection to wrap its 32-bit sequence
900space.
901In such an occurrence, the old packet would be indistinguishable from a
902new packet and would be accepted as such.
903The solution to this is called PAWS: Protection Against Wrapped Sequence
904numbers.
905It protects against it by making sure the timestamp on each packet does
906not go backwards.
907.Ar reassemble tcp
908also makes sure the timestamp on the packet does not go forward more
909than the RFC allows.
910By doing this,
911.Xr pf 4
912artificially extends the security of TCP sequence numbers by 10 to 18
913bits when the host uses appropriately randomized timestamps, since a
914blind attacker would have to guess the timestamp as well.
915.El
916.El
917.Pp
918For example,
919.Bd -literal -offset indent
920match in all scrub (no-df random-id max-mss 1440)
921.Ed
922.Ss Scrub ruleset (pre-FreeBSD 14)
923In order to maintain compatibility with older releases of FreeBSD
924.Ar scrub
925rules can also be specified in their own ruleset.
926In such case they are invoked with the
927.Ar scrub
928directive.
929If there are such rules present they determine packet reassembly behaviour.
930When no such rules are present the option
931.Ar set reassembly
932takes precedence.
933The
934.Ar scrub
935rules can take all parameters specified above for a
936.Ar scrub
937option of filter rules and 2 more parameters controlling fragment reassembly:
938.Bl -tag -width xxxx
939.It Ar fragment reassemble
940Using
941.Ar scrub
942rules, fragments can be reassembled by normalization.
943In this case, fragments are buffered until they form a complete
944packet, and only the completed packet is passed on to the filter.
945The advantage is that filter rules have to deal only with complete
946packets, and can ignore fragments.
947The drawback of caching fragments is the additional memory cost.
948This is the default behaviour unless no fragment reassemble is specified.
949.It Ar no fragment reassemble
950Do not reassemble fragments.
951.El
952.Pp
953For example,
954.Bd -literal -offset indent
955scrub in on $ext_if all fragment reassemble
956.Ed
957.Pp
958The
959.Ar no
960option prefixed to a scrub rule causes matching packets to remain unscrubbed,
961much in the same way as
962.Ar drop quick
963works in the packet filter (see below).
964This mechanism should be used when it is necessary to exclude specific packets
965from broader scrub rules.
966.Pp
967.Ar scrub
968rules in the
969.Ar scrub
970ruleset are evaluated for every packet before stateful filtering.
971This means excessive usage of them will cause performance penalty.
972.Ar scrub reassemble tcp
973rules must not have the direction (in/out) specified.
974.Sh QUEUEING with ALTQ
975The ALTQ system is currently not available in the GENERIC kernel nor as
976loadable modules.
977In order to use the herein after called queueing options one has to use a
978custom built kernel.
979Please refer to
980.Xr altq 4
981to learn about the related kernel options.
982.Pp
983Packets can be assigned to queues for the purpose of bandwidth
984control.
985At least two declarations are required to configure queues, and later
986any packet filtering rule can reference the defined queues by name.
987During the filtering component of
988.Nm pf.conf ,
989the last referenced
990.Ar queue
991name is where any packets from
992.Ar pass
993rules will be queued, while for
994.Ar block
995rules it specifies where any resulting ICMP or TCP RST
996packets should be queued.
997The
998.Ar scheduler
999defines the algorithm used to decide which packets get delayed, dropped, or
1000sent out immediately.
1001There are three
1002.Ar schedulers
1003currently supported.
1004.Bl -tag -width xxxx
1005.It Ar cbq
1006Class Based Queueing.
1007.Ar Queues
1008attached to an interface build a tree, thus each
1009.Ar queue
1010can have further child
1011.Ar queues .
1012Each queue can have a
1013.Ar priority
1014and a
1015.Ar bandwidth
1016assigned.
1017.Ar Priority
1018mainly controls the time packets take to get sent out, while
1019.Ar bandwidth
1020has primarily effects on throughput.
1021.Ar cbq
1022achieves both partitioning and sharing of link bandwidth
1023by hierarchically structured classes.
1024Each class has its own
1025.Ar queue
1026and is assigned its share of
1027.Ar bandwidth .
1028A child class can borrow bandwidth from its parent class
1029as long as excess bandwidth is available
1030(see the option
1031.Ar borrow ,
1032below).
1033.It Ar priq
1034Priority Queueing.
1035.Ar Queues
1036are flat attached to the interface, thus,
1037.Ar queues
1038cannot have further child
1039.Ar queues .
1040Each
1041.Ar queue
1042has a unique
1043.Ar priority
1044assigned, ranging from 0 to 15.
1045Packets in the
1046.Ar queue
1047with the highest
1048.Ar priority
1049are processed first.
1050.It Ar hfsc
1051Hierarchical Fair Service Curve.
1052.Ar Queues
1053attached to an interface build a tree, thus each
1054.Ar queue
1055can have further child
1056.Ar queues .
1057Each queue can have a
1058.Ar priority
1059and a
1060.Ar bandwidth
1061assigned.
1062.Ar Priority
1063mainly controls the time packets take to get sent out, while
1064.Ar bandwidth
1065primarily affects throughput.
1066.Ar hfsc
1067supports both link-sharing and guaranteed real-time services.
1068It employs a service curve based QoS model,
1069and its unique feature is an ability to decouple
1070.Ar delay
1071and
1072.Ar bandwidth
1073allocation.
1074.El
1075.Pp
1076The interfaces on which queueing should be activated are declared using
1077the
1078.Ar altq on
1079declaration.
1080.Ar altq on
1081has the following keywords:
1082.Bl -tag -width xxxx
1083.It Aq Ar interface
1084Queueing is enabled on the named interface.
1085.It Aq Ar scheduler
1086Specifies which queueing scheduler to use.
1087Currently supported values
1088are
1089.Ar cbq
1090for Class Based Queueing,
1091.Ar priq
1092for Priority Queueing and
1093.Ar hfsc
1094for the Hierarchical Fair Service Curve scheduler.
1095.It Ar bandwidth Aq Ar bw
1096The maximum bitrate for all queues on an
1097interface may be specified using the
1098.Ar bandwidth
1099keyword.
1100The value can be specified as an absolute value or as a
1101percentage of the interface bandwidth.
1102When using an absolute value, the suffixes
1103.Ar b ,
1104.Ar Kb ,
1105.Ar Mb ,
1106and
1107.Ar Gb
1108are used to represent bits, kilobits, megabits, and
1109gigabits per second, respectively.
1110The value must not exceed the interface bandwidth.
1111If
1112.Ar bandwidth
1113is not specified, the interface bandwidth is used
1114(but take note that some interfaces do not know their bandwidth,
1115or can adapt their bandwidth rates).
1116.It Ar qlimit Aq Ar limit
1117The maximum number of packets held in the queue.
1118The default is 50.
1119.It Ar tbrsize Aq Ar size
1120Adjusts the size, in bytes, of the token bucket regulator.
1121If not specified, heuristics based on the
1122interface bandwidth are used to determine the size.
1123.It Ar queue Aq Ar list
1124Defines a list of subqueues to create on an interface.
1125.El
1126.Pp
1127In the following example, the interface dc0
1128should queue up to 5Mbps in four second-level queues using
1129Class Based Queueing.
1130Those four queues will be shown in a later example.
1131.Bd -literal -offset indent
1132altq on dc0 cbq bandwidth 5Mb queue { std, http, mail, ssh }
1133.Ed
1134.Pp
1135Once interfaces are activated for queueing using the
1136.Ar altq
1137directive, a sequence of
1138.Ar queue
1139directives may be defined.
1140The name associated with a
1141.Ar queue
1142must match a queue defined in the
1143.Ar altq
1144directive (e.g. mail), or, except for the
1145.Ar priq
1146.Ar scheduler ,
1147in a parent
1148.Ar queue
1149declaration.
1150The following keywords can be used:
1151.Bl -tag -width xxxx
1152.It Ar on Aq Ar interface
1153Specifies the interface the queue operates on.
1154If not given, it operates on all matching interfaces.
1155.It Ar bandwidth Aq Ar bw
1156Specifies the maximum bitrate to be processed by the queue.
1157This value must not exceed the value of the parent
1158.Ar queue
1159and can be specified as an absolute value or a percentage of the parent
1160queue's bandwidth.
1161If not specified, defaults to 100% of the parent queue's bandwidth.
1162The
1163.Ar priq
1164scheduler does not support bandwidth specification.
1165.It Ar priority Aq Ar level
1166Between queues a priority level can be set.
1167For
1168.Ar cbq
1169and
1170.Ar hfsc ,
1171the range is 0 to 7 and for
1172.Ar priq ,
1173the range is 0 to 15.
1174The default for all is 1.
1175.Ar Priq
1176queues with a higher priority are always served first.
1177.Ar Cbq
1178and
1179.Ar Hfsc
1180queues with a higher priority are preferred in the case of overload.
1181.It Ar qlimit Aq Ar limit
1182The maximum number of packets held in the queue.
1183The default is 50.
1184.El
1185.Pp
1186The
1187.Ar scheduler
1188can get additional parameters with
1189.Xo Aq Ar scheduler
1190.Pf ( Aq Ar parameters ) .
1191.Xc
1192Parameters are as follows:
1193.Bl -tag -width Fl
1194.It Ar default
1195Packets not matched by another queue are assigned to this one.
1196Exactly one default queue is required.
1197.It Ar red
1198Enable RED (Random Early Detection) on this queue.
1199RED drops packets with a probability proportional to the average
1200queue length.
1201.It Ar rio
1202Enables RIO on this queue.
1203RIO is RED with IN/OUT, thus running
1204RED two times more than RIO would achieve the same effect.
1205RIO is currently not supported in the GENERIC kernel.
1206.It Ar ecn
1207Enables ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification) on this queue.
1208ECN implies RED.
1209.El
1210.Pp
1211The
1212.Ar cbq
1213.Ar scheduler
1214supports an additional option:
1215.Bl -tag -width Fl
1216.It Ar borrow
1217The queue can borrow bandwidth from the parent.
1218.El
1219.Pp
1220The
1221.Ar hfsc
1222.Ar scheduler
1223supports some additional options:
1224.Bl -tag -width Fl
1225.It Ar realtime Aq Ar sc
1226The minimum required bandwidth for the queue.
1227.It Ar upperlimit Aq Ar sc
1228The maximum allowed bandwidth for the queue.
1229.It Ar linkshare Aq Ar sc
1230The bandwidth share of a backlogged queue.
1231.El
1232.Pp
1233.Aq Ar sc
1234is an acronym for
1235.Ar service curve .
1236.Pp
1237The format for service curve specifications is
1238.Ar ( m1 , d , m2 ) .
1239.Ar m2
1240controls the bandwidth assigned to the queue.
1241.Ar m1
1242and
1243.Ar d
1244are optional and can be used to control the initial bandwidth assignment.
1245For the first
1246.Ar d
1247milliseconds the queue gets the bandwidth given as
1248.Ar m1 ,
1249afterwards the value given in
1250.Ar m2 .
1251.Pp
1252Furthermore, with
1253.Ar cbq
1254and
1255.Ar hfsc ,
1256child queues can be specified as in an
1257.Ar altq
1258declaration, thus building a tree of queues using a part of
1259their parent's bandwidth.
1260.Pp
1261Packets can be assigned to queues based on filter rules by using the
1262.Ar queue
1263keyword.
1264Normally only one
1265.Ar queue
1266is specified; when a second one is specified it will instead be used for
1267packets which have a
1268.Em TOS
1269of
1270.Em lowdelay
1271and for TCP ACKs with no data payload.
1272.Pp
1273To continue the previous example, the examples below would specify the
1274four referenced
1275queues, plus a few child queues.
1276Interactive
1277.Xr ssh 1
1278sessions get priority over bulk transfers like
1279.Xr scp 1
1280and
1281.Xr sftp 1 .
1282The queues may then be referenced by filtering rules (see
1283.Sx PACKET FILTERING
1284below).
1285.Bd -literal
1286queue std bandwidth 10% cbq(default)
1287queue http bandwidth 60% priority 2 cbq(borrow red) \e
1288      { employees, developers }
1289queue  developers bandwidth 75% cbq(borrow)
1290queue  employees bandwidth 15%
1291queue mail bandwidth 10% priority 0 cbq(borrow ecn)
1292queue ssh bandwidth 20% cbq(borrow) { ssh_interactive, ssh_bulk }
1293queue  ssh_interactive bandwidth 50% priority 7 cbq(borrow)
1294queue  ssh_bulk bandwidth 50% priority 0 cbq(borrow)
1295
1296block return out on dc0 inet all queue std
1297pass out on dc0 inet proto tcp from $developerhosts to any port 80 \e
1298      queue developers
1299pass out on dc0 inet proto tcp from $employeehosts to any port 80 \e
1300      queue employees
1301pass out on dc0 inet proto tcp from any to any port 22 \e
1302      queue(ssh_bulk, ssh_interactive)
1303pass out on dc0 inet proto tcp from any to any port 25 \e
1304      queue mail
1305.Ed
1306.Sh QUEUEING with dummynet
1307Queueing can also be done with
1308.Xr dummynet 4 .
1309Queues and pipes can be created with
1310.Xr dnctl 8 .
1311.Pp
1312Packets can be assigned to queues and pipes using
1313.Ar dnqueue
1314and
1315.Ar dnpipe
1316respectively.
1317.Pp
1318Both
1319.Ar dnqueue
1320and
1321.Ar dnpipe
1322take either a single pipe or queue number or two numbers as arguments.
1323The first pipe or queue number will be used to shape the traffic in the rule
1324direction, the second will be used to shape the traffic in the reverse
1325direction.
1326If the rule does not specify a direction the first packet to create state will
1327be shaped according to the first number, and the response traffic according to
1328the second.
1329.Pp
1330If the
1331.Xr dummynet 4
1332module is not loaded any traffic sent into a queue or pipe will be dropped.
1333.Sh TRANSLATION
1334Translation rules modify either the source or destination address of the
1335packets associated with a stateful connection.
1336A stateful connection is automatically created to track packets matching
1337such a rule as long as they are not blocked by the filtering section of
1338.Nm pf.conf .
1339The translation engine modifies the specified address and/or port in the
1340packet, recalculates IP, TCP and UDP checksums as necessary, and passes
1341it to the packet filter for evaluation.
1342.Pp
1343Since translation occurs before filtering the filter
1344engine will see packets as they look after any
1345addresses and ports have been translated.
1346Filter rules will therefore have to filter based on the translated
1347address and port number.
1348Packets that match a translation rule are only automatically passed if
1349the
1350.Ar pass
1351modifier is given, otherwise they are
1352still subject to
1353.Ar block
1354and
1355.Ar pass
1356rules.
1357.Pp
1358The state entry created permits
1359.Xr pf 4
1360to keep track of the original address for traffic associated with that state
1361and correctly direct return traffic for that connection.
1362.Pp
1363Various types of translation are possible with pf:
1364.Bl -tag -width xxxx
1365.It Ar af-to
1366Translation between different address families (NAT64) is handled
1367using
1368.Ar af-to
1369rules.
1370Because address family translation overrides the routing table, it's
1371only possible to use
1372.Ar af-to
1373on inbound rules, and a source address of the resulting translation
1374must always be specified.
1375.Pp
1376The optional second argument is the host or subnet the original
1377addresses are translated into for the destination.
1378The lowest bits of the original destination address form the host
1379part of the new destination address according to the specified subnet.
1380It is possible to embed a complete IPv4 address into an IPv6 address
1381using a network prefix of /96 or smaller.
1382.Pp
1383When a destination address is not specified it is assumed that the host
1384part is 32-bit long.
1385For IPv6 to IPv4 translation this would mean using only the lower 32
1386bits of the original IPv6 destination address.
1387For IPv4 to IPv6 translation the destination subnet defaults to the
1388subnet of the new IPv6 source address with a prefix length of /96.
1389See RFC 6052 Section 2.2 for details on how the prefix determines the
1390destination address encoding.
1391.Pp
1392For example, the following rules are identical:
1393.Bd -literal -offset indent
1394pass in inet af-to inet6 from 2001:db8::1 to 2001:db8::/96
1395pass in inet af-to inet6 from 2001:db8::1
1396.Ed
1397.Pp
1398In the above example the matching IPv4 packets will be modified to
1399have a source address of 2001:db8::1 and a destination address will
1400get prefixed with 2001:db8::/96, e.g. 198.51.100.100 will be
1401translated to 2001:db8::c633:6464.
1402.Pp
1403In the reverse case the following rules are identical:
1404.Bd -literal -offset indent
1405pass in inet6 af-to inet from 198.51.100.1 to 0.0.0.0/0
1406pass in inet6 af-to inet from 198.51.100.1
1407.Ed
1408.Pp
1409The destination IPv4 address is assumed to be embedded inside the
1410original IPv6 destination address, e.g. 64:ff9b::c633:6464 will be
1411translated to 198.51.100.100.
1412.Pp
1413The current implementation will only extract IPv4 addresses from the
1414IPv6 addresses with a prefix length of /96 and greater.
1415.It Ar binat
1416A
1417.Ar binat
1418rule specifies a bidirectional mapping between an external IP netblock
1419and an internal IP netblock.
1420.It Ar nat
1421A
1422.Ar nat
1423rule specifies that IP addresses are to be changed as the packet
1424traverses the given interface.
1425This technique allows one or more IP addresses
1426on the translating host to support network traffic for a larger range of
1427machines on an "inside" network.
1428Although in theory any IP address can be used on the inside, it is strongly
1429recommended that one of the address ranges defined by RFC 1918 be used.
1430These netblocks are:
1431.Bd -literal
143210.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (all of net 10, i.e., 10/8)
1433172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (i.e., 172.16/12)
1434192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (i.e., 192.168/16)
1435.Ed
1436.It Pa rdr
1437The packet is redirected to another destination and possibly a
1438different port.
1439.Ar rdr
1440rules can optionally specify port ranges instead of single ports.
1441rdr ... port 2000:2999 -\*(Gt ... port 4000
1442redirects ports 2000 to 2999 (inclusive) to port 4000.
1443rdr ... port 2000:2999 -\*(Gt ... port 4000:*
1444redirects port 2000 to 4000, 2001 to 4001, ..., 2999 to 4999.
1445.El
1446.Pp
1447In addition to modifying the address, some translation rules may modify
1448source or destination ports for
1449.Xr tcp 4
1450or
1451.Xr udp 4
1452connections; implicitly in the case of
1453.Ar nat
1454rules and both implicitly and explicitly in the case of
1455.Ar rdr
1456rules.
1457A
1458.Ar rdr
1459rule may cause the source port to be modified if doing so avoids a conflict
1460with an existing connection.
1461A random source port in the range 50001-65535 is chosen in this case; to
1462avoid excessive CPU consumption, the number of searches for a free port is
1463limited by the
1464.Va net.pf.rdr_srcport_rewrite_tries
1465sysctl.
1466Port numbers are never translated with a
1467.Ar binat
1468rule.
1469.Pp
1470Evaluation order of the translation rules is dependent on the type
1471of the translation rules and of the direction of a packet.
1472.Ar binat
1473rules are always evaluated first.
1474Then either the
1475.Ar rdr
1476rules are evaluated on an inbound packet or the
1477.Ar nat
1478rules on an outbound packet.
1479Rules of the same type are evaluated in the same order in which they
1480appear in the ruleset.
1481The first matching rule decides what action is taken.
1482.Pp
1483The
1484.Ar no
1485option prefixed to a translation rule causes packets to remain untranslated,
1486much in the same way as
1487.Ar drop quick
1488works in the packet filter (see below).
1489If no rule matches the packet it is passed to the filter engine unmodified.
1490.Pp
1491Translation rules apply only to packets that pass through
1492the specified interface, and if no interface is specified,
1493translation is applied to packets on all interfaces.
1494For instance, redirecting port 80 on an external interface to an internal
1495web server will only work for connections originating from the outside.
1496Connections to the address of the external interface from local hosts will
1497not be redirected, since such packets do not actually pass through the
1498external interface.
1499Redirections cannot reflect packets back through the interface they arrive
1500on, they can only be redirected to hosts connected to different interfaces
1501or to the firewall itself.
1502.Pp
1503Note that redirecting external incoming connections to the loopback
1504address, as in
1505.Bd -literal -offset indent
1506rdr on ne3 inet proto tcp to port smtp -\*(Gt 127.0.0.1 port spamd
1507.Ed
1508.Pp
1509will effectively allow an external host to connect to daemons
1510bound solely to the loopback address, circumventing the traditional
1511blocking of such connections on a real interface.
1512Unless this effect is desired, any of the local non-loopback addresses
1513should be used as redirection target instead, which allows external
1514connections only to daemons bound to this address or not bound to
1515any address.
1516.Pp
1517See
1518.Sx TRANSLATION EXAMPLES
1519below.
1520.Sh PACKET FILTERING
1521.Xr pf 4
1522has the ability to
1523.Ar block
1524,
1525.Ar pass
1526and
1527.Ar match
1528packets based on attributes of their layer 3 (see
1529.Xr ip 4
1530and
1531.Xr ip6 4 )
1532and layer 4 (see
1533.Xr icmp 4 ,
1534.Xr icmp6 4 ,
1535.Xr tcp 4 ,
1536.Xr sctp 4 ,
1537.Xr udp 4 )
1538headers.
1539In addition, packets may also be
1540assigned to queues for the purpose of bandwidth control.
1541.Pp
1542For each packet processed by the packet filter, the filter rules are
1543evaluated in sequential order, from first to last.
1544For
1545.Ar block
1546and
1547.Ar pass
1548, the last matching rule decides what action is taken.
1549For
1550.Ar match
1551, rules are evaluated every time they match; the pass/block state of a packet
1552remains unchanged.
1553If no rule matches the packet, the default action is to pass
1554the packet.
1555.Pp
1556The following actions can be used in the filter:
1557.Bl -tag -width xxxx
1558.It Ar block
1559The packet is blocked.
1560There are a number of ways in which a
1561.Ar block
1562rule can behave when blocking a packet.
1563The default behaviour is to
1564.Ar drop
1565packets silently, however this can be overridden or made
1566explicit either globally, by setting the
1567.Ar block-policy
1568option, or on a per-rule basis with one of the following options:
1569.Pp
1570.Bl -tag -width xxxx -compact
1571.It Ar drop
1572The packet is silently dropped.
1573.It Ar return-rst
1574This applies only to
1575.Xr tcp 4
1576packets, and issues a TCP RST which closes the
1577connection.
1578.It Ar return-icmp
1579.It Ar return-icmp6
1580This causes ICMP messages to be returned for packets which match the rule.
1581By default this is an ICMP UNREACHABLE message, however this
1582can be overridden by specifying a message as a code or number.
1583.It Ar return
1584This causes a TCP RST to be returned for
1585.Xr tcp 4
1586packets, an SCTP ABORT for SCTP
1587and an ICMP UNREACHABLE for UDP and other packets.
1588.El
1589.Pp
1590Options returning ICMP packets currently have no effect if
1591.Xr pf 4
1592operates on a
1593.Xr if_bridge 4 ,
1594as the code to support this feature has not yet been implemented.
1595.Pp
1596The simplest mechanism to block everything by default and only pass
1597packets that match explicit rules is specify a first filter rule of:
1598.Bd -literal -offset indent
1599block all
1600.Ed
1601.It Ar match
1602The packet is matched.
1603This mechanism is used to provide fine grained filtering without altering the
1604block/pass state of a packet.
1605.Ar match
1606rules differ from
1607.Ar block
1608and
1609.Ar pass
1610rules in that parameters are set for every rule a packet matches, not only
1611on the last matching rule.
1612For the following parameters, this means that the parameter effectively becomes
1613"sticky" until explicitly overridden:
1614.Ar queue ,
1615.Ar dnpipe ,
1616.Ar dnqueue ,
1617.Ar rtable ,
1618.Ar scrub
1619.
1620.It Ar pass
1621The packet is passed;
1622state is created unless the
1623.Ar no state
1624option is specified.
1625.El
1626.Pp
1627By default
1628.Xr pf 4
1629filters packets statefully; the first time a packet matches a
1630.Ar pass
1631rule, a state entry is created; for subsequent packets the filter checks
1632whether the packet matches any state.
1633If it does, the packet is passed without evaluation of any rules.
1634After the connection is closed or times out, the state entry is automatically
1635removed.
1636.Pp
1637This has several advantages.
1638For TCP connections, comparing a packet to a state involves checking
1639its sequence numbers, as well as TCP timestamps if a
1640.Ar scrub reassemble tcp
1641rule applies to the connection.
1642If these values are outside the narrow windows of expected
1643values, the packet is dropped.
1644This prevents spoofing attacks, such as when an attacker sends packets with
1645a fake source address/port but does not know the connection's sequence
1646numbers.
1647Similarly,
1648.Xr pf 4
1649knows how to match ICMP replies to states.
1650For example,
1651.Bd -literal -offset indent
1652pass out inet proto icmp all icmp-type echoreq
1653.Ed
1654.Pp
1655allows echo requests (such as those created by
1656.Xr ping 8 )
1657out statefully, and matches incoming echo replies correctly to states.
1658.Pp
1659Also, looking up states is usually faster than evaluating rules.
1660If there are 50 rules, all of them are evaluated sequentially in O(n).
1661Even with 50000 states, only 16 comparisons are needed to match a
1662state, since states are stored in a binary search tree that allows
1663searches in O(log2 n).
1664.Pp
1665Furthermore, correct handling of ICMP error messages is critical to
1666many protocols, particularly TCP.
1667.Xr pf 4
1668matches ICMP error messages to the correct connection, checks them against
1669connection parameters, and passes them if appropriate.
1670For example if an ICMP source quench message referring to a stateful TCP
1671connection arrives, it will be matched to the state and get passed.
1672.Pp
1673Finally, state tracking is required for
1674.Ar nat , binat No and Ar rdr
1675rules, in order to track address and port translations and reverse the
1676translation on returning packets.
1677.Pp
1678.Xr pf 4
1679will also create state for other protocols which are effectively stateless by
1680nature.
1681UDP packets are matched to states using only host addresses and ports,
1682and other protocols are matched to states using only the host addresses.
1683.Pp
1684If stateless filtering of individual packets is desired,
1685the
1686.Ar no state
1687keyword can be used to specify that state will not be created
1688if this is the last matching rule.
1689A number of parameters can also be set to affect how
1690.Xr pf 4
1691handles state tracking.
1692See
1693.Sx STATEFUL TRACKING OPTIONS
1694below for further details.
1695.Sh PARAMETERS
1696The rule parameters specify the packets to which a rule applies.
1697A packet always comes in on, or goes out through, one interface.
1698Most parameters are optional.
1699If a parameter is specified, the rule only applies to packets with
1700matching attributes.
1701Certain parameters can be expressed as lists, in which case
1702.Xr pfctl 8
1703generates all needed rule combinations.
1704.Bl -tag -width xxxx
1705.It Ar in No or Ar out
1706This rule applies to incoming or outgoing packets.
1707If neither
1708.Ar in
1709nor
1710.Ar out
1711are specified, the rule will match packets in both directions.
1712.It Ar log
1713In addition to the action specified, a log message is generated.
1714Only the packet that establishes the state is logged,
1715unless the
1716.Ar no state
1717option is specified.
1718The logged packets are sent to a
1719.Xr pflog 4
1720interface, by default
1721.Ar pflog0 .
1722This interface is monitored by the
1723.Xr pflogd 8
1724logging daemon, which dumps the logged packets to the file
1725.Pa /var/log/pflog
1726in
1727.Xr pcap 3
1728binary format.
1729.It Ar log (all)
1730Used to force logging of all packets for a connection.
1731This is not necessary when
1732.Ar no state
1733is explicitly specified.
1734As with
1735.Ar log ,
1736packets are logged to
1737.Xr pflog 4 .
1738.It Ar log (matches)
1739Used to force logging of this packet on all subsequent matching rules.
1740.It Ar log (user)
1741Logs the
1742.Ux
1743user ID of the user that owns the socket and the PID of the process that
1744has the socket open where the packet is sourced from or destined to
1745(depending on which socket is local).
1746This is in addition to the normal information logged.
1747.Pp
1748Only the first packet
1749logged via
1750.Ar log (all, user)
1751will have the user credentials logged when using stateful matching.
1752.It Ar log (to Aq Ar interface )
1753Send logs to the specified
1754.Xr pflog 4
1755interface instead of
1756.Ar pflog0 .
1757.It Ar quick
1758If a packet matches a rule which has the
1759.Ar quick
1760option set, this rule
1761is considered the last matching rule, and evaluation of subsequent rules
1762is skipped.
1763.It Ar on Aq Ar interface
1764This rule applies only to packets coming in on, or going out through, this
1765particular interface or interface group.
1766For more information on interface groups,
1767see the
1768.Ic group
1769keyword in
1770.Xr ifconfig 8 .
1771.It Aq Ar af
1772This rule applies only to packets of this address family.
1773Supported values are
1774.Ar inet
1775and
1776.Ar inet6 .
1777.It Ar proto Aq Ar protocol
1778This rule applies only to packets of this protocol.
1779Common protocols are
1780.Xr icmp 4 ,
1781.Xr icmp6 4 ,
1782.Xr tcp 4 ,
1783.Xr sctp 4 ,
1784and
1785.Xr udp 4 .
1786For a list of all the protocol name to number mappings used by
1787.Xr pfctl 8 ,
1788see the file
1789.Pa /etc/protocols .
1790.It Xo
1791.Ar from Aq Ar source
1792.Ar port Aq Ar source
1793.Ar os Aq Ar source
1794.Ar to Aq Ar dest
1795.Ar port Aq Ar dest
1796.Xc
1797This rule applies only to packets with the specified source and destination
1798addresses and ports.
1799.Pp
1800Addresses can be specified in CIDR notation (matching netblocks), as
1801symbolic host names, interface names or interface group names, or as any
1802of the following keywords:
1803.Pp
1804.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -compact
1805.It Ar any
1806Any address.
1807.It Ar no-route
1808Any address which is not currently routable.
1809.It Ar urpf-failed
1810Any source address that fails a unicast reverse path forwarding (URPF)
1811check, i.e. packets coming in on an interface other than that which holds
1812the route back to the packet's source address.
1813.It Ar self
1814Expands to all addresses assigned to all interfaces.
1815.It Aq Ar table
1816Any address that matches the given table.
1817.El
1818.Pp
1819Ranges of addresses are specified by using the
1820.Sq -
1821operator.
1822For instance:
1823.Dq 10.1.1.10 - 10.1.1.12
1824means all addresses from 10.1.1.10 to 10.1.1.12,
1825hence addresses 10.1.1.10, 10.1.1.11, and 10.1.1.12.
1826.Pp
1827Interface names and interface group names, and
1828.Ar self
1829can have modifiers appended:
1830.Pp
1831.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxx -compact
1832.It Ar :network
1833Translates to the network(s) attached to the interface.
1834.It Ar :broadcast
1835Translates to the interface's broadcast address(es).
1836.It Ar :peer
1837Translates to the point-to-point interface's peer address(es).
1838.It Ar :0
1839Do not include interface aliases.
1840.El
1841.Pp
1842Host names may also have the
1843.Ar :0
1844option appended to restrict the name resolution to the first of each
1845v4 and non-link-local v6 address found.
1846.Pp
1847Host name resolution and interface to address translation are done at
1848ruleset load-time.
1849When the address of an interface (or host name) changes (under DHCP or PPP,
1850for instance), the ruleset must be reloaded for the change to be reflected
1851in the kernel.
1852Surrounding the interface name (and optional modifiers) in parentheses
1853changes this behaviour.
1854When the interface name is surrounded by parentheses, the rule is
1855automatically updated whenever the interface changes its address.
1856The ruleset does not need to be reloaded.
1857This is especially useful with
1858.Ar nat .
1859.Pp
1860Ports can be specified either by number or by name.
1861For example, port 80 can be specified as
1862.Em www .
1863For a list of all port name to number mappings used by
1864.Xr pfctl 8 ,
1865see the file
1866.Pa /etc/services .
1867.Pp
1868Ports and ranges of ports are specified by using these operators:
1869.Bd -literal -offset indent
1870=	(equal)
1871!=	(unequal)
1872\*(Lt	(less than)
1873\*(Le	(less than or equal)
1874\*(Gt	(greater than)
1875\*(Ge	(greater than or equal)
1876:	(range including boundaries)
1877\*(Gt\*(Lt	(range excluding boundaries)
1878\*(Lt\*(Gt	(except range)
1879.Ed
1880.Pp
1881.Sq \*(Gt\*(Lt ,
1882.Sq \*(Lt\*(Gt
1883and
1884.Sq \&:
1885are binary operators (they take two arguments).
1886For instance:
1887.Bl -tag -width Fl
1888.It Ar port 2000:2004
1889means
1890.Sq all ports \*(Ge 2000 and \*(Le 2004 ,
1891hence ports 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004.
1892.It Ar port 2000 \*(Gt\*(Lt 2004
1893means
1894.Sq all ports \*(Gt 2000 and \*(Lt 2004 ,
1895hence ports 2001, 2002 and 2003.
1896.It Ar port 2000 \*(Lt\*(Gt 2004
1897means
1898.Sq all ports \*(Lt 2000 or \*(Gt 2004 ,
1899hence ports 1-1999 and 2005-65535.
1900.El
1901.Pp
1902The operating system of the source host can be specified in the case of TCP
1903rules with the
1904.Ar OS
1905modifier.
1906See the
1907.Sx OPERATING SYSTEM FINGERPRINTING
1908section for more information.
1909.Pp
1910The host, port and OS specifications are optional, as in the following examples:
1911.Bd -literal -offset indent
1912pass in all
1913pass in from any to any
1914pass in proto tcp from any port \*(Le 1024 to any
1915pass in proto tcp from any to any port 25
1916pass in proto tcp from 10.0.0.0/8 port \*(Gt 1024 \e
1917      to ! 10.1.2.3 port != ssh
1918pass in proto tcp from any os "OpenBSD"
1919.Ed
1920.It Ar all
1921This is equivalent to "from any to any".
1922.It Ar group Aq Ar group
1923Similar to
1924.Ar user ,
1925this rule only applies to packets of sockets owned by the specified group.
1926.It Ar user Aq Ar user
1927This rule only applies to packets of sockets owned by the specified user.
1928For outgoing connections initiated from the firewall, this is the user
1929that opened the connection.
1930For incoming connections to the firewall itself, this is the user that
1931listens on the destination port.
1932For forwarded connections, where the firewall is not a connection endpoint,
1933the user and group are
1934.Em unknown .
1935.Pp
1936All packets, both outgoing and incoming, of one connection are associated
1937with the same user and group.
1938Only TCP and UDP packets can be associated with users; for other protocols
1939these parameters are ignored.
1940.Pp
1941User and group refer to the effective (as opposed to the real) IDs, in
1942case the socket is created by a setuid/setgid process.
1943User and group IDs are stored when a socket is created;
1944when a process creates a listening socket as root (for instance, by
1945binding to a privileged port) and subsequently changes to another
1946user ID (to drop privileges), the credentials will remain root.
1947.Pp
1948User and group IDs can be specified as either numbers or names.
1949The syntax is similar to the one for ports.
1950The value
1951.Em unknown
1952matches packets of forwarded connections.
1953.Em unknown
1954can only be used with the operators
1955.Cm =
1956and
1957.Cm != .
1958Other constructs like
1959.Cm user \*(Ge unknown
1960are invalid.
1961Forwarded packets with unknown user and group ID match only rules
1962that explicitly compare against
1963.Em unknown
1964with the operators
1965.Cm =
1966or
1967.Cm != .
1968For instance
1969.Cm user \*(Ge 0
1970does not match forwarded packets.
1971The following example allows only selected users to open outgoing
1972connections:
1973.Bd -literal -offset indent
1974block out proto { tcp, udp } all
1975pass  out proto { tcp, udp } all user { \*(Lt 1000, dhartmei }
1976.Ed
1977.It Xo Ar flags Aq Ar a
1978.Pf / Ns Aq Ar b
1979.No \*(Ba / Ns Aq Ar b
1980.No \*(Ba any
1981.Xc
1982This rule only applies to TCP packets that have the flags
1983.Aq Ar a
1984set out of set
1985.Aq Ar b .
1986Flags not specified in
1987.Aq Ar b
1988are ignored.
1989For stateful connections, the default is
1990.Ar flags S/SA .
1991To indicate that flags should not be checked at all, specify
1992.Ar flags any .
1993The flags are: (F)IN, (S)YN, (R)ST, (P)USH, (A)CK, (U)RG, (E)CE, and C(W)R.
1994.Bl -tag -width Fl
1995.It Ar flags S/S
1996Flag SYN is set.
1997The other flags are ignored.
1998.It Ar flags S/SA
1999This is the default setting for stateful connections.
2000Out of SYN and ACK, exactly SYN may be set.
2001SYN, SYN+PSH and SYN+RST match, but SYN+ACK, ACK and ACK+RST do not.
2002This is more restrictive than the previous example.
2003.It Ar flags /SFRA
2004If the first set is not specified, it defaults to none.
2005All of SYN, FIN, RST and ACK must be unset.
2006.El
2007.Pp
2008Because
2009.Ar flags S/SA
2010is applied by default (unless
2011.Ar no state
2012is specified), only the initial SYN packet of a TCP handshake will create
2013a state for a TCP connection.
2014It is possible to be less restrictive, and allow state creation from
2015intermediate
2016.Pq non-SYN
2017packets, by specifying
2018.Ar flags any .
2019This will cause
2020.Xr pf 4
2021to synchronize to existing connections, for instance
2022if one flushes the state table.
2023However, states created from such intermediate packets may be missing
2024connection details such as the TCP window scaling factor.
2025States which modify the packet flow, such as those affected by
2026.Ar af-to,
2027.Ar nat,
2028.Ar binat or
2029.Ar rdr
2030rules,
2031.Ar modulate No or Ar synproxy state
2032options, or scrubbed with
2033.Ar reassemble tcp
2034will also not be recoverable from intermediate packets.
2035Such connections will stall and time out.
2036.It Xo Ar icmp-type Aq Ar type
2037.Ar code Aq Ar code
2038.Xc
2039.It Xo Ar icmp6-type Aq Ar type
2040.Ar code Aq Ar code
2041.Xc
2042This rule only applies to ICMP or ICMPv6 packets with the specified type
2043and code.
2044Text names for ICMP types and codes are listed in
2045.Xr icmp 4
2046and
2047.Xr icmp6 4 .
2048This parameter is only valid for rules that cover protocols ICMP or
2049ICMP6.
2050The protocol and the ICMP type indicator
2051.Po
2052.Ar icmp-type
2053or
2054.Ar icmp6-type
2055.Pc
2056must match.
2057.It Xo Ar tos Aq Ar string
2058.No \*(Ba Aq Ar number
2059.Xc
2060This rule applies to packets with the specified
2061.Em TOS
2062bits set.
2063.Em TOS
2064may be
2065given as one of
2066.Ar critical ,
2067.Ar inetcontrol ,
2068.Ar lowdelay ,
2069.Ar netcontrol ,
2070.Ar throughput ,
2071.Ar reliability ,
2072or one of the DiffServ Code Points:
2073.Ar ef ,
2074.Ar va ,
2075.Ar af11 No ... Ar af43 ,
2076.Ar cs0 No ... Ar cs7 ;
2077or as either hex or decimal.
2078.Pp
2079For example, the following rules are identical:
2080.Bd -literal -offset indent
2081pass all tos lowdelay
2082pass all tos 0x10
2083pass all tos 16
2084.Ed
2085.It Ar allow-opts
2086By default, IPv4 packets with IP options or IPv6 packets with routing
2087extension headers are blocked.
2088When
2089.Ar allow-opts
2090is specified for a
2091.Ar pass
2092rule, packets that pass the filter based on that rule (last matching)
2093do so even if they contain IP options or routing extension headers.
2094For packets that match state, the rule that initially created the
2095state is used.
2096The implicit
2097.Ar pass
2098rule that is used when a packet does not match any rules does not
2099allow IP options.
2100.It Ar label Aq Ar string
2101Adds a label (name) to the rule, which can be used to identify the rule.
2102For instance,
2103pfctl -s labels
2104shows per-rule statistics for rules that have labels.
2105.Pp
2106The following macros can be used in labels:
2107.Pp
2108.Bl -tag -width $srcaddr -compact -offset indent
2109.It Ar $if
2110The interface.
2111.It Ar $srcaddr
2112The source IP address.
2113.It Ar $dstaddr
2114The destination IP address.
2115.It Ar $srcport
2116The source port specification.
2117.It Ar $dstport
2118The destination port specification.
2119.It Ar $proto
2120The protocol name.
2121.It Ar $nr
2122The rule number.
2123.El
2124.Pp
2125For example:
2126.Bd -literal -offset indent
2127ips = \&"{ 1.2.3.4, 1.2.3.5 }\&"
2128pass in proto tcp from any to $ips \e
2129      port \*(Gt 1023 label \&"$dstaddr:$dstport\&"
2130.Ed
2131.Pp
2132expands to
2133.Bd -literal -offset indent
2134pass in inet proto tcp from any to 1.2.3.4 \e
2135      port \*(Gt 1023 label \&"1.2.3.4:\*(Gt1023\&"
2136pass in inet proto tcp from any to 1.2.3.5 \e
2137      port \*(Gt 1023 label \&"1.2.3.5:\*(Gt1023\&"
2138.Ed
2139.Pp
2140The macro expansion for the
2141.Ar label
2142directive occurs only at configuration file parse time, not during runtime.
2143.It Ar ridentifier Aq Ar number
2144Add an identifier (number) to the rule, which can be used to correlate the rule
2145to pflog entries, even after ruleset updates.
2146.It Xo Ar queue Aq Ar queue
2147.No \*(Ba ( Aq Ar queue ,
2148.Aq Ar queue )
2149.Xc
2150Packets matching this rule will be assigned to the specified queue.
2151If two queues are given, packets which have a
2152.Em TOS
2153of
2154.Em lowdelay
2155and TCP ACKs with no data payload will be assigned to the second one.
2156See
2157.Sx QUEUEING
2158for setup details.
2159.Pp
2160For example:
2161.Bd -literal -offset indent
2162pass in proto tcp to port 25 queue mail
2163pass in proto tcp to port 22 queue(ssh_bulk, ssh_prio)
2164.Ed
2165.It Cm set prio Ar priority | Pq Ar priority , priority
2166Packets matching this rule will be assigned a specific queueing priority.
2167Priorities are assigned as integers 0 through 7.
2168If the packet is transmitted on a
2169.Xr vlan 4
2170interface, the queueing priority will be written as the priority
2171code point in the 802.1Q VLAN header.
2172If two priorities are given, packets which have a TOS of
2173.Cm lowdelay
2174and TCP ACKs with no data payload will be assigned to the second one.
2175.Pp
2176For example:
2177.Bd -literal -offset indent
2178pass in proto tcp to port 25 set prio 2
2179pass in proto tcp to port 22 set prio (2, 5)
2180.Ed
2181.It Ar received-on Aq Ar interface
2182Only match packets which were received on the specified
2183.Ar interface
2184(or interface group).
2185.It Ar tag Aq Ar string
2186Packets matching this rule will be tagged with the
2187specified string.
2188The tag acts as an internal marker that can be used to
2189identify these packets later on.
2190This can be used, for example, to provide trust between
2191interfaces and to determine if packets have been
2192processed by translation rules.
2193Tags are
2194.Qq sticky ,
2195meaning that the packet will be tagged even if the rule
2196is not the last matching rule.
2197Further matching rules can replace the tag with a
2198new one but will not remove a previously applied tag.
2199A packet is only ever assigned one tag at a time.
2200Packet tagging can be done during
2201.Ar nat ,
2202.Ar rdr ,
2203.Ar binat
2204or
2205.Ar ether
2206rules in addition to filter rules.
2207Tags take the same macros as labels (see above).
2208.It Ar tagged Aq Ar string
2209Used with filter, translation or scrub rules
2210to specify that packets must already
2211be tagged with the given tag in order to match the rule.
2212Inverse tag matching can also be done
2213by specifying the
2214.Cm !\&
2215operator before the
2216.Ar tagged
2217keyword.
2218.It Ar rtable Aq Ar number
2219Used to select an alternate routing table for the routing lookup.
2220Only effective before the route lookup happened, i.e. when filtering inbound.
2221.It Xo Ar divert-to Aq Ar host
2222.Ar port Aq Ar port
2223.Xc
2224Used to
2225.Xr divert 4
2226packets to the given divert
2227.Ar port .
2228Historically
2229.Ox pf has another meaning for this, and
2230.Fx pf uses
2231this syntax to support
2232.Xr divert 4 instead. Hence,
2233.Ar host
2234has no meaning and can be set to anything like 127.0.0.1.
2235If a packet is re-injected and does not change direction then it will not be
2236re-diverted.
2237.It Ar divert-reply
2238It has no meaning in
2239.Fx pf .
2240.It Ar probability Aq Ar number
2241A probability attribute can be attached to a rule, with a value set between
22420 and 1, bounds not included.
2243In that case, the rule will be honoured using the given probability value
2244only.
2245For example, the following rule will drop 20% of incoming ICMP packets:
2246.Bd -literal -offset indent
2247block in proto icmp probability 20%
2248.Ed
2249.It Ar prio Aq Ar number
2250Only match packets which have the given queueing priority assigned.
2251.El
2252.Sh ROUTING
2253If a packet matches a rule with a route option set, the packet filter will
2254route the packet according to the type of route option.
2255When such a rule creates state, the route option is also applied to all
2256packets matching the same connection.
2257.Bl -tag -width xxxx
2258.It Ar route-to
2259The
2260.Ar route-to
2261option routes the packet to the specified interface with an optional address
2262for the next hop.
2263When a
2264.Ar route-to
2265rule creates state, only packets that pass in the same direction as the
2266filter rule specifies will be routed in this way.
2267Packets passing in the opposite direction (replies) are not affected
2268and are routed normally.
2269.It Ar reply-to
2270The
2271.Ar reply-to
2272option is similar to
2273.Ar route-to ,
2274but routes packets that pass in the opposite direction (replies) to the
2275specified interface.
2276Opposite direction is only defined in the context of a state entry, and
2277.Ar reply-to
2278is useful only in rules that create state.
2279It can be used on systems with multiple external connections to
2280route all outgoing packets of a connection through the interface
2281the incoming connection arrived through (symmetric routing enforcement).
2282.It Ar dup-to
2283The
2284.Ar dup-to
2285option creates a duplicate of the packet and routes it like
2286.Ar route-to .
2287The original packet gets routed as it normally would.
2288.El
2289.Sh POOL OPTIONS
2290For
2291.Ar nat
2292and
2293.Ar rdr
2294rules, (as well as for the
2295.Ar route-to ,
2296.Ar reply-to
2297and
2298.Ar dup-to
2299rule options) for which there is a single redirection address which has a
2300subnet mask smaller than 32 for IPv4 or 128 for IPv6 (more than one IP
2301address), a variety of different methods for assigning this address can be
2302used:
2303.Bl -tag -width xxxx
2304.It Ar bitmask
2305The
2306.Ar bitmask
2307option applies the network portion of the redirection address to the address
2308to be modified (source with
2309.Ar nat ,
2310destination with
2311.Ar rdr ) .
2312.It Ar random
2313The
2314.Ar random
2315option selects an address at random within the defined block of addresses.
2316.It Ar source-hash
2317The
2318.Ar source-hash
2319option uses a hash of the source address to determine the redirection address,
2320ensuring that the redirection address is always the same for a given source.
2321An optional key can be specified after this keyword either in hex or as a
2322string; by default
2323.Xr pfctl 8
2324randomly generates a key for source-hash every time the
2325ruleset is reloaded.
2326.It Ar round-robin
2327The
2328.Ar round-robin
2329option loops through the redirection address(es).
2330.Pp
2331When more than one redirection address is specified,
2332.Ar round-robin
2333is the only permitted pool type.
2334.It Ar static-port
2335With
2336.Ar nat
2337rules, the
2338.Ar static-port
2339option prevents
2340.Xr pf 4
2341from modifying the source port on TCP and UDP packets.
2342.It Xo Ar map-e-portset Aq Ar psid-offset
2343.No / Aq Ar psid-len
2344.No / Aq Ar psid
2345.Xc
2346With
2347.Ar nat
2348rules, the
2349.Ar map-e-portset
2350option enables the source port translation of MAP-E (RFC 7597) Customer Edge.
2351In order to make the host act as a MAP-E Customer Edge, setting up a tunneling
2352interface and pass rules for encapsulated packets are required in addition
2353to the map-e-portset nat rule.
2354.Pp
2355For example:
2356.Bd -literal -offset indent
2357nat on $gif_mape_if from $int_if:network to any \e
2358      -> $ipv4_mape_src map-e-portset 6/8/0x34
2359.Ed
2360.Pp
2361sets PSID offset 6, PSID length 8, PSID 0x34.
2362.It Ar endpoint-independent
2363With
2364.Ar nat
2365rules, the
2366.Ar endpoint-independent
2367option caues
2368.Xr pf 4
2369to always map connections from a UDP source address and port to the same
2370NAT address and port.
2371This feature implements "full-cone" NAT behavior.
2372.El
2373.Pp
2374Additionally, the
2375.Ar sticky-address
2376option can be specified to help ensure that multiple connections from the
2377same source are mapped to the same redirection address.
2378This option can be used with the
2379.Ar random
2380and
2381.Ar round-robin
2382pool options.
2383Note that by default these associations are destroyed as soon as there are
2384no longer states which refer to them; in order to make the mappings last
2385beyond the lifetime of the states, increase the global options with
2386.Ar set timeout src.track .
2387See
2388.Sx STATEFUL TRACKING OPTIONS
2389for more ways to control the source tracking.
2390.Sh STATE MODULATION
2391Much of the security derived from TCP is attributable to how well the
2392initial sequence numbers (ISNs) are chosen.
2393Some popular stack implementations choose
2394.Em very
2395poor ISNs and thus are normally susceptible to ISN prediction exploits.
2396By applying a
2397.Ar modulate state
2398rule to a TCP connection,
2399.Xr pf 4
2400will create a high quality random sequence number for each connection
2401endpoint.
2402.Pp
2403The
2404.Ar modulate state
2405directive implicitly keeps state on the rule and is
2406only applicable to TCP connections.
2407.Pp
2408For instance:
2409.Bd -literal -offset indent
2410block all
2411pass out proto tcp from any to any modulate state
2412pass in  proto tcp from any to any port 25 flags S/SFRA modulate state
2413.Ed
2414.Pp
2415Note that modulated connections will not recover when the state table
2416is lost (firewall reboot, flushing the state table, etc...).
2417.Xr pf 4
2418will not be able to infer a connection again after the state table flushes
2419the connection's modulator.
2420When the state is lost, the connection may be left dangling until the
2421respective endpoints time out the connection.
2422It is possible on a fast local network for the endpoints to start an ACK
2423storm while trying to resynchronize after the loss of the modulator.
2424The default
2425.Ar flags
2426settings (or a more strict equivalent) should be used on
2427.Ar modulate state
2428rules to prevent ACK storms.
2429.Pp
2430Note that alternative methods are available
2431to prevent loss of the state table
2432and allow for firewall failover.
2433See
2434.Xr carp 4
2435and
2436.Xr pfsync 4
2437for further information.
2438.Sh SYN PROXY
2439By default,
2440.Xr pf 4
2441passes packets that are part of a
2442.Xr tcp 4
2443handshake between the endpoints.
2444The
2445.Ar synproxy state
2446option can be used to cause
2447.Xr pf 4
2448itself to complete the handshake with the active endpoint, perform a handshake
2449with the passive endpoint, and then forward packets between the endpoints.
2450.Pp
2451No packets are sent to the passive endpoint before the active endpoint has
2452completed the handshake, hence so-called SYN floods with spoofed source
2453addresses will not reach the passive endpoint, as the sender can't complete the
2454handshake.
2455.Pp
2456The proxy is transparent to both endpoints, they each see a single
2457connection from/to the other endpoint.
2458.Xr pf 4
2459chooses random initial sequence numbers for both handshakes.
2460Once the handshakes are completed, the sequence number modulators
2461(see previous section) are used to translate further packets of the
2462connection.
2463.Ar synproxy state
2464includes
2465.Ar modulate state .
2466.Pp
2467Rules with
2468.Ar synproxy
2469will not work if
2470.Xr pf 4
2471operates on a
2472.Xr bridge 4 .
2473.Pp
2474Example:
2475.Bd -literal -offset indent
2476pass in proto tcp from any to any port www synproxy state
2477.Ed
2478.Sh STATEFUL TRACKING OPTIONS
2479A number of options related to stateful tracking can be applied on a
2480per-rule basis.
2481.Ar keep state ,
2482.Ar modulate state
2483and
2484.Ar synproxy state
2485support these options, and
2486.Ar keep state
2487must be specified explicitly to apply options to a rule.
2488.Pp
2489.Bl -tag -width xxxx -compact
2490.It Ar max Aq Ar number
2491Limits the number of concurrent states the rule may create.
2492When this limit is reached, further packets that would create
2493state are dropped until existing states time out.
2494.It Ar no-sync
2495Prevent state changes for states created by this rule from appearing on the
2496.Xr pfsync 4
2497interface.
2498.It Xo Aq Ar timeout
2499.Aq Ar seconds
2500.Xc
2501Changes the timeout values used for states created by this rule.
2502For a list of all valid timeout names, see
2503.Sx OPTIONS
2504above.
2505.It Ar sloppy
2506Uses a sloppy TCP connection tracker that does not check sequence
2507numbers at all, which makes insertion and ICMP teardown attacks way
2508easier.
2509This is intended to be used in situations where one does not see all
2510packets of a connection, e.g. in asymmetric routing situations.
2511Cannot be used with modulate or synproxy state.
2512.It Ar pflow
2513States created by this rule are exported on the
2514.Xr pflow 4
2515interface.
2516.El
2517.Pp
2518Multiple options can be specified, separated by commas:
2519.Bd -literal -offset indent
2520pass in proto tcp from any to any \e
2521      port www keep state \e
2522      (max 100, source-track rule, max-src-nodes 75, \e
2523      max-src-states 3, tcp.established 60, tcp.closing 5)
2524.Ed
2525.Pp
2526When the
2527.Ar source-track
2528keyword is specified, the number of states per source IP is tracked.
2529.Pp
2530.Bl -tag -width xxxx -compact
2531.It Ar source-track rule
2532The maximum number of states created by this rule is limited by the rule's
2533.Ar max-src-nodes
2534and
2535.Ar max-src-states
2536options.
2537Only state entries created by this particular rule count toward the rule's
2538limits.
2539.It Ar source-track global
2540The number of states created by all rules that use this option is limited.
2541Each rule can specify different
2542.Ar max-src-nodes
2543and
2544.Ar max-src-states
2545options, however state entries created by any participating rule count towards
2546each individual rule's limits.
2547.El
2548.Pp
2549The following limits can be set:
2550.Pp
2551.Bl -tag -width xxxx -compact
2552.It Ar max-src-nodes Aq Ar number
2553Limits the maximum number of source addresses which can simultaneously
2554have state table entries.
2555.It Ar max-src-states Aq Ar number
2556Limits the maximum number of simultaneous state entries that a single
2557source address can create with this rule.
2558.El
2559.Pp
2560For stateful TCP connections, limits on established connections (connections
2561which have completed the TCP 3-way handshake) can also be enforced
2562per source IP.
2563.Pp
2564.Bl -tag -width xxxx -compact
2565.It Ar max-src-conn Aq Ar number
2566Limits the maximum number of simultaneous TCP connections which have
2567completed the 3-way handshake that a single host can make.
2568.It Xo Ar max-src-conn-rate Aq Ar number
2569.No / Aq Ar seconds
2570.Xc
2571Limit the rate of new connections over a time interval.
2572The connection rate is an approximation calculated as a moving average.
2573.El
2574.Pp
2575When one of these limits is reached, further packets that would create
2576state are dropped until existing states time out.
2577.Pp
2578Because the 3-way handshake ensures that the source address is not being
2579spoofed, more aggressive action can be taken based on these limits.
2580With the
2581.Ar overload Aq Ar table
2582state option, source IP addresses which hit either of the limits on
2583established connections will be added to the named table.
2584This table can be used in the ruleset to block further activity from
2585the offending host, redirect it to a tarpit process, or restrict its
2586bandwidth.
2587.Pp
2588The optional
2589.Ar flush
2590keyword kills all states created by the matching rule which originate
2591from the host which exceeds these limits.
2592The
2593.Ar global
2594modifier to the flush command kills all states originating from the
2595offending host, regardless of which rule created the state.
2596.Pp
2597For example, the following rules will protect the webserver against
2598hosts making more than 100 connections in 10 seconds.
2599Any host which connects faster than this rate will have its address added
2600to the
2601.Aq bad_hosts
2602table and have all states originating from it flushed.
2603Any new packets arriving from this host will be dropped unconditionally
2604by the block rule.
2605.Bd -literal -offset indent
2606block quick from \*(Ltbad_hosts\*(Gt
2607pass in on $ext_if proto tcp to $webserver port www keep state \e
2608	(max-src-conn-rate 100/10, overload \*(Ltbad_hosts\*(Gt flush global)
2609.Ed
2610.Sh OPERATING SYSTEM FINGERPRINTING
2611Passive OS Fingerprinting is a mechanism to inspect nuances of a TCP
2612connection's initial SYN packet and guess at the host's operating system.
2613Unfortunately these nuances are easily spoofed by an attacker so the
2614fingerprint is not useful in making security decisions.
2615But the fingerprint is typically accurate enough to make policy decisions
2616upon.
2617.Pp
2618The fingerprints may be specified by operating system class, by
2619version, or by subtype/patchlevel.
2620The class of an operating system is typically the vendor or genre
2621and would be
2622.Ox
2623for the
2624.Xr pf 4
2625firewall itself.
2626The version of the oldest available
2627.Ox
2628release on the main FTP site
2629would be 2.6 and the fingerprint would be written
2630.Pp
2631.Dl \&"OpenBSD 2.6\&"
2632.Pp
2633The subtype of an operating system is typically used to describe the
2634patchlevel if that patch led to changes in the TCP stack behavior.
2635In the case of
2636.Ox ,
2637the only subtype is for a fingerprint that was
2638normalized by the
2639.Ar no-df
2640scrub option and would be specified as
2641.Pp
2642.Dl \&"OpenBSD 3.3 no-df\&"
2643.Pp
2644Fingerprints for most popular operating systems are provided by
2645.Xr pf.os 5 .
2646Once
2647.Xr pf 4
2648is running, a complete list of known operating system fingerprints may
2649be listed by running:
2650.Pp
2651.Dl # pfctl -so
2652.Pp
2653Filter rules can enforce policy at any level of operating system specification
2654assuming a fingerprint is present.
2655Policy could limit traffic to approved operating systems or even ban traffic
2656from hosts that aren't at the latest service pack.
2657.Pp
2658The
2659.Ar unknown
2660class can also be used as the fingerprint which will match packets for
2661which no operating system fingerprint is known.
2662.Pp
2663Examples:
2664.Bd -literal -offset indent
2665pass  out proto tcp from any os OpenBSD
2666block out proto tcp from any os Doors
2667block out proto tcp from any os "Doors PT"
2668block out proto tcp from any os "Doors PT SP3"
2669block out from any os "unknown"
2670pass on lo0 proto tcp from any os "OpenBSD 3.3 lo0"
2671.Ed
2672.Pp
2673Operating system fingerprinting is limited only to the TCP SYN packet.
2674This means that it will not work on other protocols and will not match
2675a currently established connection.
2676.Pp
2677Caveat: operating system fingerprints are occasionally wrong.
2678There are three problems: an attacker can trivially craft his packets to
2679appear as any operating system he chooses;
2680an operating system patch could change the stack behavior and no fingerprints
2681will match it until the database is updated;
2682and multiple operating systems may have the same fingerprint.
2683.Sh BLOCKING SPOOFED TRAFFIC
2684"Spoofing" is the faking of IP addresses, typically for malicious
2685purposes.
2686The
2687.Ar antispoof
2688directive expands to a set of filter rules which will block all
2689traffic with a source IP from the network(s) directly connected
2690to the specified interface(s) from entering the system through
2691any other interface.
2692.Pp
2693For example, the line
2694.Bd -literal -offset indent
2695antispoof for lo0
2696.Ed
2697.Pp
2698expands to
2699.Bd -literal -offset indent
2700block drop in on ! lo0 inet from 127.0.0.1/8 to any
2701block drop in on ! lo0 inet6 from ::1 to any
2702.Ed
2703.Pp
2704For non-loopback interfaces, there are additional rules to block incoming
2705packets with a source IP address identical to the interface's IP(s).
2706For example, assuming the interface wi0 had an IP address of 10.0.0.1 and a
2707netmask of 255.255.255.0,
2708the line
2709.Bd -literal -offset indent
2710antispoof for wi0 inet
2711.Ed
2712.Pp
2713expands to
2714.Bd -literal -offset indent
2715block drop in on ! wi0 inet from 10.0.0.0/24 to any
2716block drop in inet from 10.0.0.1 to any
2717.Ed
2718.Pp
2719Caveat: Rules created by the
2720.Ar antispoof
2721directive interfere with packets sent over loopback interfaces
2722to local addresses.
2723One should pass these explicitly.
2724.Sh FRAGMENT HANDLING
2725The size of IP datagrams (packets) can be significantly larger than the
2726maximum transmission unit (MTU) of the network.
2727In cases when it is necessary or more efficient to send such large packets,
2728the large packet will be fragmented into many smaller packets that will each
2729fit onto the wire.
2730Unfortunately for a firewalling device, only the first logical fragment will
2731contain the necessary header information for the subprotocol that allows
2732.Xr pf 4
2733to filter on things such as TCP ports or to perform NAT.
2734.Pp
2735Besides the use of
2736.Ar set reassemble
2737option or
2738.Ar scrub
2739rules as described in
2740.Sx TRAFFIC NORMALIZATION
2741above, there are three options for handling fragments in the packet filter.
2742.Pp
2743One alternative is to filter individual fragments with filter rules.
2744If no
2745.Ar scrub
2746rule applies to a fragment or
2747.Ar set reassemble
2748is set to
2749.Cm no
2750, it is passed to the filter.
2751Filter rules with matching IP header parameters decide whether the
2752fragment is passed or blocked, in the same way as complete packets
2753are filtered.
2754Without reassembly, fragments can only be filtered based on IP header
2755fields (source/destination address, protocol), since subprotocol header
2756fields are not available (TCP/UDP port numbers, ICMP code/type).
2757The
2758.Ar fragment
2759option can be used to restrict filter rules to apply only to
2760fragments, but not complete packets.
2761Filter rules without the
2762.Ar fragment
2763option still apply to fragments, if they only specify IP header fields.
2764For instance, the rule
2765.Bd -literal -offset indent
2766pass in proto tcp from any to any port 80
2767.Ed
2768.Pp
2769never applies to a fragment, even if the fragment is part of a TCP
2770packet with destination port 80, because without reassembly this information
2771is not available for each fragment.
2772This also means that fragments cannot create new or match existing
2773state table entries, which makes stateful filtering and address
2774translation (NAT, redirection) for fragments impossible.
2775.Pp
2776It's also possible to reassemble only certain fragments by specifying
2777source or destination addresses or protocols as parameters in
2778.Ar scrub
2779rules.
2780.Pp
2781In most cases, the benefits of reassembly outweigh the additional
2782memory cost, and it's recommended to use
2783.Ar set reassemble
2784option or
2785.Ar scrub
2786rules with the
2787.Ar fragment reassemble
2788modifier to reassemble
2789all fragments.
2790.Pp
2791The memory allocated for fragment caching can be limited using
2792.Xr pfctl 8 .
2793Once this limit is reached, fragments that would have to be cached
2794are dropped until other entries time out.
2795The timeout value can also be adjusted.
2796.Pp
2797When forwarding reassembled IPv6 packets, pf refragments them with
2798the original maximum fragment size.
2799This allows the sender to determine the optimal fragment size by
2800path MTU discovery.
2801.Sh ANCHORS
2802Besides the main ruleset,
2803.Xr pfctl 8
2804can load rulesets into
2805.Ar anchor
2806attachment points.
2807An
2808.Ar anchor
2809is a container that can hold rules, address tables, and other anchors.
2810.Pp
2811An
2812.Ar anchor
2813has a name which specifies the path where
2814.Xr pfctl 8
2815can be used to access the anchor to perform operations on it, such as
2816attaching child anchors to it or loading rules into it.
2817Anchors may be nested, with components separated by
2818.Sq /
2819characters, similar to how file system hierarchies are laid out.
2820The main ruleset is actually the default anchor, so filter and
2821translation rules, for example, may also be contained in any anchor.
2822.Pp
2823An anchor can reference another
2824.Ar anchor
2825attachment point
2826using the following kinds
2827of rules:
2828.Bl -tag -width xxxx
2829.It Ar nat-anchor Aq Ar name
2830Evaluates the
2831.Ar nat
2832rules in the specified
2833.Ar anchor .
2834.It Ar rdr-anchor Aq Ar name
2835Evaluates the
2836.Ar rdr
2837rules in the specified
2838.Ar anchor .
2839.It Ar binat-anchor Aq Ar name
2840Evaluates the
2841.Ar binat
2842rules in the specified
2843.Ar anchor .
2844.It Ar anchor Aq Ar name
2845Evaluates the filter rules in the specified
2846.Ar anchor .
2847.It Xo Ar load anchor
2848.Aq Ar name
2849.Ar from Aq Ar file
2850.Xc
2851Loads the rules from the specified file into the
2852anchor
2853.Ar name .
2854.El
2855.Pp
2856When evaluation of the main ruleset reaches an
2857.Ar anchor
2858rule,
2859.Xr pf 4
2860will proceed to evaluate all rules specified in that anchor.
2861.Pp
2862Matching filter and translation rules marked with the
2863.Ar quick
2864option are final and abort the evaluation of the rules in other
2865anchors and the main ruleset.
2866If the
2867.Ar anchor
2868itself is marked with the
2869.Ar quick
2870option,
2871ruleset evaluation will terminate when the anchor is exited if the packet is
2872matched by any rule within the anchor.
2873.Pp
2874.Ar anchor
2875rules are evaluated relative to the anchor in which they are contained.
2876For example, all
2877.Ar anchor
2878rules specified in the main ruleset will reference anchor
2879attachment points underneath the main ruleset, and
2880.Ar anchor
2881rules specified in a file loaded from a
2882.Ar load anchor
2883rule will be attached under that anchor point.
2884.Pp
2885Rules may be contained in
2886.Ar anchor
2887attachment points which do not contain any rules when the main ruleset
2888is loaded, and later such anchors can be manipulated through
2889.Xr pfctl 8
2890without reloading the main ruleset or other anchors.
2891For example,
2892.Bd -literal -offset indent
2893ext_if = \&"kue0\&"
2894block on $ext_if all
2895anchor spam
2896pass out on $ext_if all
2897pass in on $ext_if proto tcp from any \e
2898      to $ext_if port smtp
2899.Ed
2900.Pp
2901blocks all packets on the external interface by default, then evaluates
2902all rules in the
2903.Ar anchor
2904named "spam", and finally passes all outgoing connections and
2905incoming connections to port 25.
2906.Bd -literal -offset indent
2907# echo \&"block in quick from 1.2.3.4 to any\&" \&| \e
2908      pfctl -a spam -f -
2909.Ed
2910.Pp
2911This loads a single rule into the
2912.Ar anchor ,
2913which blocks all packets from a specific address.
2914.Pp
2915The anchor can also be populated by adding a
2916.Ar load anchor
2917rule after the
2918.Ar anchor
2919rule:
2920.Bd -literal -offset indent
2921anchor spam
2922load anchor spam from "/etc/pf-spam.conf"
2923.Ed
2924.Pp
2925When
2926.Xr pfctl 8
2927loads
2928.Nm pf.conf ,
2929it will also load all the rules from the file
2930.Pa /etc/pf-spam.conf
2931into the anchor.
2932.Pp
2933Optionally,
2934.Ar anchor
2935rules can specify packet filtering parameters using the same syntax as
2936filter rules.
2937When parameters are used, the
2938.Ar anchor
2939rule is only evaluated for matching packets.
2940This allows conditional evaluation of anchors, like:
2941.Bd -literal -offset indent
2942block on $ext_if all
2943anchor spam proto tcp from any to any port smtp
2944pass out on $ext_if all
2945pass in on $ext_if proto tcp from any to $ext_if port smtp
2946.Ed
2947.Pp
2948The rules inside
2949.Ar anchor
2950spam are only evaluated for
2951.Ar tcp
2952packets with destination port 25.
2953Hence,
2954.Bd -literal -offset indent
2955# echo \&"block in quick from 1.2.3.4 to any" \&| \e
2956      pfctl -a spam -f -
2957.Ed
2958.Pp
2959will only block connections from 1.2.3.4 to port 25.
2960.Pp
2961Anchors may end with the asterisk
2962.Pq Sq *
2963character, which signifies that all anchors attached at that point
2964should be evaluated in the alphabetical ordering of their anchor name.
2965For example,
2966.Bd -literal -offset indent
2967anchor "spam/*"
2968.Ed
2969.Pp
2970will evaluate each rule in each anchor attached to the
2971.Li spam
2972anchor.
2973Note that it will only evaluate anchors that are directly attached to the
2974.Li spam
2975anchor, and will not descend to evaluate anchors recursively.
2976.Pp
2977Since anchors are evaluated relative to the anchor in which they are
2978contained, there is a mechanism for accessing the parent and ancestor
2979anchors of a given anchor.
2980Similar to file system path name resolution, if the sequence
2981.Dq ..
2982appears as an anchor path component, the parent anchor of the current
2983anchor in the path evaluation at that point will become the new current
2984anchor.
2985As an example, consider the following:
2986.Bd -literal -offset indent
2987# echo ' anchor "spam/allowed" ' | pfctl -f -
2988# echo -e ' anchor "../banned" \en pass' | \e
2989      pfctl -a spam/allowed -f -
2990.Ed
2991.Pp
2992Evaluation of the main ruleset will lead into the
2993.Li spam/allowed
2994anchor, which will evaluate the rules in the
2995.Li spam/banned
2996anchor, if any, before finally evaluating the
2997.Ar pass
2998rule.
2999.Pp
3000Filter rule
3001.Ar anchors
3002can also be loaded inline in the ruleset within a brace ('{' '}') delimited
3003block.
3004Brace delimited blocks may contain rules or other brace-delimited blocks.
3005When anchors are loaded this way the anchor name becomes optional.
3006.Bd -literal -offset indent
3007anchor "external" on $ext_if {
3008	block
3009	anchor out {
3010		pass proto tcp from any to port { 25, 80, 443 }
3011	}
3012	pass in proto tcp to any port 22
3013}
3014.Ed
3015.Pp
3016Since the parser specification for anchor names is a string, any
3017reference to an anchor name containing
3018.Sq /
3019characters will require double quote
3020.Pq Sq \&"
3021characters around the anchor name.
3022.Sh SCTP CONSIDERATIONS
3023.Xr pf 4
3024supports
3025.Xr sctp 4
3026connections.
3027It can match ports, track state and NAT SCTP traffic.
3028However, it will not alter port numbers during nat or rdr translations.
3029Doing so would break SCTP multihoming.
3030.Sh TRANSLATION EXAMPLES
3031This example maps incoming requests on port 80 to port 8080, on
3032which a daemon is running (because, for example, it is not run as root,
3033and therefore lacks permission to bind to port 80).
3034.Bd -literal
3035# use a macro for the interface name, so it can be changed easily
3036ext_if = \&"ne3\&"
3037
3038# map daemon on 8080 to appear to be on 80
3039rdr on $ext_if proto tcp from any to any port 80 -\*(Gt 127.0.0.1 port 8080
3040.Ed
3041.Pp
3042If the
3043.Ar pass
3044modifier is given, packets matching the translation rule are passed without
3045inspecting the filter rules:
3046.Bd -literal
3047rdr pass on $ext_if proto tcp from any to any port 80 -\*(Gt 127.0.0.1 \e
3048      port 8080
3049.Ed
3050.Pp
3051In the example below, vlan12 is configured as 192.168.168.1;
3052the machine translates all packets coming from 192.168.168.0/24 to 204.92.77.111
3053when they are going out any interface except vlan12.
3054This has the net effect of making traffic from the 192.168.168.0/24
3055network appear as though it is the Internet routable address
3056204.92.77.111 to nodes behind any interface on the router except
3057for the nodes on vlan12.
3058(Thus, 192.168.168.1 can talk to the 192.168.168.0/24 nodes.)
3059.Bd -literal
3060nat on ! vlan12 from 192.168.168.0/24 to any -\*(Gt 204.92.77.111
3061.Ed
3062.Pp
3063In the example below, the machine sits between a fake internal 144.19.74.*
3064network, and a routable external IP of 204.92.77.100.
3065The
3066.Ar no nat
3067rule excludes protocol AH from being translated.
3068.Bd -literal
3069# NO NAT
3070no nat on $ext_if proto ah from 144.19.74.0/24 to any
3071nat on $ext_if from 144.19.74.0/24 to any -\*(Gt 204.92.77.100
3072.Ed
3073.Pp
3074In the example below, packets bound for one specific server, as well as those
3075generated by the sysadmins are not proxied; all other connections are.
3076.Bd -literal
3077# NO RDR
3078no rdr on $int_if proto { tcp, udp } from any to $server port 80
3079no rdr on $int_if proto { tcp, udp } from $sysadmins to any port 80
3080rdr on $int_if proto { tcp, udp } from any to any port 80 -\*(Gt 127.0.0.1 \e
3081      port 80
3082.Ed
3083.Pp
3084This longer example uses both a NAT and a redirection.
3085The external interface has the address 157.161.48.183.
3086On localhost, we are running
3087.Xr ftp-proxy 8 ,
3088waiting for FTP sessions to be redirected to it.
3089The three mandatory anchors for
3090.Xr ftp-proxy 8
3091are omitted from this example; see the
3092.Xr ftp-proxy 8
3093manpage.
3094.Bd -literal
3095# NAT
3096# Translate outgoing packets' source addresses (any protocol).
3097# In this case, any address but the gateway's external address is mapped.
3098nat on $ext_if inet from ! ($ext_if) to any -\*(Gt ($ext_if)
3099
3100# NAT PROXYING
3101# Map outgoing packets' source port to an assigned proxy port instead of
3102# an arbitrary port.
3103# In this case, proxy outgoing isakmp with port 500 on the gateway.
3104nat on $ext_if inet proto udp from any port = isakmp to any -\*(Gt ($ext_if) \e
3105      port 500
3106
3107# BINAT
3108# Translate outgoing packets' source address (any protocol).
3109# Translate incoming packets' destination address to an internal machine
3110# (bidirectional).
3111binat on $ext_if from 10.1.2.150 to any -\*(Gt $ext_if
3112
3113# Translate packets arriving on $peer_if addressed to 172.22.16.0/20
3114# to the corresponding address in 172.21.16.0/20 (bidirectional).
3115binat on $peer_if from 172.21.16.0/20 to any -> 172.22.16.0/20
3116
3117# RDR
3118# Translate incoming packets' destination addresses.
3119# As an example, redirect a TCP and UDP port to an internal machine.
3120rdr on $ext_if inet proto tcp from any to ($ext_if) port 8080 \e
3121      -\*(Gt 10.1.2.151 port 22
3122rdr on $ext_if inet proto udp from any to ($ext_if) port 8080 \e
3123      -\*(Gt 10.1.2.151 port 53
3124
3125# RDR
3126# Translate outgoing ftp control connections to send them to localhost
3127# for proxying with ftp-proxy(8) running on port 8021.
3128rdr on $int_if proto tcp from any to any port 21 -\*(Gt 127.0.0.1 port 8021
3129.Ed
3130.Pp
3131In this example, a NAT gateway is set up to translate internal addresses
3132using a pool of public addresses (192.0.2.16/28) and to redirect
3133incoming web server connections to a group of web servers on the internal
3134network.
3135.Bd -literal
3136# NAT LOAD BALANCE
3137# Translate outgoing packets' source addresses using an address pool.
3138# A given source address is always translated to the same pool address by
3139# using the source-hash keyword.
3140nat on $ext_if inet from any to any -\*(Gt 192.0.2.16/28 source-hash
3141
3142# RDR ROUND ROBIN
3143# Translate incoming web server connections to a group of web servers on
3144# the internal network.
3145rdr on $ext_if proto tcp from any to any port 80 \e
3146      -\*(Gt { 10.1.2.155, 10.1.2.160, 10.1.2.161 } round-robin
3147.Ed
3148.Sh FILTER EXAMPLES
3149.Bd -literal
3150# The external interface is kue0
3151# (157.161.48.183, the only routable address)
3152# and the private network is 10.0.0.0/8, for which we are doing NAT.
3153
3154# Reassemble incoming traffic
3155set reassemble yes
3156
3157# use a macro for the interface name, so it can be changed easily
3158ext_if = \&"kue0\&"
3159
3160# block and log everything by default
3161block return log on $ext_if all
3162
3163# block anything coming from source we have no back routes for
3164block in from no-route to any
3165
3166# block packets whose ingress interface does not match the one in
3167# the route back to their source address
3168block in from urpf-failed to any
3169
3170# block and log outgoing packets that do not have our address as source,
3171# they are either spoofed or something is misconfigured (NAT disabled,
3172# for instance), we want to be nice and do not send out garbage.
3173block out log quick on $ext_if from ! 157.161.48.183 to any
3174
3175# silently drop broadcasts (cable modem noise)
3176block in quick on $ext_if from any to 255.255.255.255
3177
3178# block and log incoming packets from reserved address space and invalid
3179# addresses, they are either spoofed or misconfigured, we cannot reply to
3180# them anyway (hence, no return-rst).
3181block in log quick on $ext_if from { 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, \e
3182      192.168.0.0/16, 255.255.255.255/32 } to any
3183
3184# ICMP
3185
3186# pass out/in certain ICMP queries and keep state (ping)
3187# state matching is done on host addresses and ICMP id (not type/code),
3188# so replies (like 0/0 for 8/0) will match queries
3189# ICMP error messages (which always refer to a TCP/UDP packet) are
3190# handled by the TCP/UDP states
3191pass on $ext_if inet proto icmp all icmp-type 8 code 0
3192
3193# UDP
3194
3195# pass out all UDP connections and keep state
3196pass out on $ext_if proto udp all
3197
3198# pass in certain UDP connections and keep state (DNS)
3199pass in on $ext_if proto udp from any to any port domain
3200
3201# TCP
3202
3203# pass out all TCP connections and modulate state
3204pass out on $ext_if proto tcp all modulate state
3205
3206# pass in certain TCP connections and keep state (SSH, SMTP, DNS, IDENT)
3207pass in on $ext_if proto tcp from any to any port { ssh, smtp, domain, \e
3208      auth }
3209
3210# Do not allow Windows 9x SMTP connections since they are typically
3211# a viral worm. Alternately we could limit these OSes to 1 connection each.
3212block in on $ext_if proto tcp from any os {"Windows 95", "Windows 98"} \e
3213      to any port smtp
3214
3215# IPv6
3216# pass in/out all IPv6 traffic: note that we have to enable this in two
3217# different ways, on both our physical interface and our tunnel
3218pass quick on gif0 inet6
3219pass quick on $ext_if proto ipv6
3220
3221# Packet Tagging
3222
3223# three interfaces: $int_if, $ext_if, and $wifi_if (wireless). NAT is
3224# being done on $ext_if for all outgoing packets. tag packets in on
3225# $int_if and pass those tagged packets out on $ext_if.  all other
3226# outgoing packets (i.e., packets from the wireless network) are only
3227# permitted to access port 80.
3228
3229pass in on $int_if from any to any tag INTNET
3230pass in on $wifi_if from any to any
3231
3232block out on $ext_if from any to any
3233pass out quick on $ext_if tagged INTNET
3234pass out on $ext_if proto tcp from any to any port 80
3235
3236# tag incoming packets as they are redirected to spamd(8). use the tag
3237# to pass those packets through the packet filter.
3238
3239rdr on $ext_if inet proto tcp from \*(Ltspammers\*(Gt to port smtp \e
3240	tag SPAMD -\*(Gt 127.0.0.1 port spamd
3241
3242block in on $ext_if
3243pass in on $ext_if inet proto tcp tagged SPAMD
3244.Ed
3245.Pp
3246In the example below, a router handling both address families
3247translates an internal IPv4 subnet to IPv6 using the well-known
324864:ff9b::/96 prefix:
3249.Bd -literal -offset 4n
3250pass in on $v4_if inet af-to inet6 from ($v6_if) to 64:ff9b::/96
3251.Ed
3252.Pp
3253Paired with the example above, the example below can be used on
3254another router handling both address families to translate back
3255to IPv4:
3256.Bd -literal -offset 4n
3257pass in on $v6_if inet6 to 64:ff9b::/96 af-to inet from ($v4_if)
3258.Ed
3259.Sh GRAMMAR
3260Syntax for
3261.Nm
3262in BNF:
3263.Bd -literal
3264line           = ( option | ether-rule | pf-rule | nat-rule | binat-rule |
3265                 rdr-rule | antispoof-rule | altq-rule | queue-rule |
3266                 trans-anchors | anchor-rule | anchor-close | load-anchor |
3267                 table-rule | include )
3268
3269option         = "set" ( [ "timeout" ( timeout | "{" timeout-list "}" ) ] |
3270                 [ "ruleset-optimization" [ "none" | "basic" | "profile" ]] |
3271                 [ "optimization" [ "default" | "normal" |
3272                 "high-latency" | "satellite" |
3273                 "aggressive" | "conservative" ] ]
3274                 [ "limit" ( limit-item | "{" limit-list "}" ) ] |
3275                 [ "loginterface" ( interface-name | "none" ) ] |
3276                 [ "block-policy" ( "drop" | "return" ) ] |
3277                 [ "state-policy" ( "if-bound" | "floating" ) ]
3278                 [ "state-defaults" state-opts ]
3279                 [ "require-order" ( "yes" | "no" ) ]
3280                 [ "fingerprints" filename ] |
3281                 [ "skip on" ifspec ] |
3282                 [ "debug" ( "none" | "urgent" | "misc" | "loud" ) ]
3283                 [ "keepcounters" ] )
3284
3285ether-rule     = "ether" etheraction [ ( "in" | "out" ) ]
3286                 [ "quick" ] [ "on" ifspec ] [ "bridge-to" interface-name ]
3287                 [ etherprotospec ] etherhosts [ "l3" hosts ]
3288                 [ etherfilteropt-list ]
3289
3290pf-rule        = action [ ( "in" | "out" ) ]
3291                 [ "log" [ "(" logopts ")"] ] [ "quick" ]
3292                 [ "on" ifspec ] [ route ] [ af ] [ protospec ]
3293                 hosts [ filteropt-list ]
3294
3295logopts        = logopt [ "," logopts ]
3296logopt         = "all" | "matches" | "user" | "to" interface-name
3297
3298etherfilteropt-list = etherfilteropt-list etherfilteropt | etherfilteropt
3299etherfilteropt = "tag" string | "tagged" string | "queue" ( string ) |
3300                 "ridentifier" number | "label" string
3301
3302filteropt-list = filteropt-list filteropt | filteropt
3303filteropt      = user | group | flags | icmp-type | icmp6-type | "tos" tos |
3304                 "af-to" af "from" ( redirhost | "{" redirhost-list "}" )
3305                 [ "to" ( redirhost | "{" redirhost-list "}" ) ] |
3306                 ( "no" | "keep" | "modulate" | "synproxy" ) "state"
3307                 [ "(" state-opts ")" ] |
3308                 "fragment" | "no-df" | "min-ttl" number | "set-tos" tos |
3309                 "max-mss" number | "random-id" | "reassemble tcp" |
3310                 fragmentation | "allow-opts" |
3311                 "label" string | "tag" string | [ ! ] "tagged" string |
3312                 "set prio" ( number | "(" number [ [ "," ] number ] ")" ) |
3313                 "queue" ( string | "(" string [ [ "," ] string ] ")" ) |
3314                 "rtable" number | "probability" number"%" | "prio" number |
3315                 "dnpipe" ( number | "(" number "," number ")" ) |
3316                 "dnqueue" ( number | "(" number "," number ")" ) |
3317                 "ridentifier" number |
3318                 "received-on" ( interface-name | interface-group )
3319
3320nat-rule       = [ "no" ] "nat" [ "pass" [ "log" [ "(" logopts ")" ] ] ]
3321                 [ "on" ifspec ] [ af ]
3322                 [ protospec ] hosts [ "tag" string ] [ "tagged" string ]
3323                 [ "-\*(Gt" ( redirhost | "{" redirhost-list "}" )
3324                 [ portspec ] [ pooltype ] [ "static-port" ]
3325                 [ "map-e-portset" number "/" number "/" number ] ]
3326
3327binat-rule     = [ "no" ] "binat" [ "pass" [ "log" [ "(" logopts ")" ] ] ]
3328                 [ "on" interface-name ] [ af ]
3329                 [ "proto" ( proto-name | proto-number ) ]
3330                 "from" address [ "/" mask-bits ] "to" ipspec
3331                 [ "tag" string ] [ "tagged" string ]
3332                 [ "-\*(Gt" address [ "/" mask-bits ] ]
3333
3334rdr-rule       = [ "no" ] "rdr" [ "pass" [ "log" [ "(" logopts ")" ] ] ]
3335                 [ "on" ifspec ] [ af ]
3336                 [ protospec ] hosts [ "tag" string ] [ "tagged" string ]
3337                 [ "-\*(Gt" ( redirhost | "{" redirhost-list "}" )
3338                 [ portspec ] [ pooltype ] ]
3339
3340antispoof-rule = "antispoof" [ "log" ] [ "quick" ]
3341                 "for" ifspec [ af ] [ "label" string ]
3342                 [ "ridentifier" number ]
3343
3344table-rule     = "table" "\*(Lt" string "\*(Gt" [ tableopts-list ]
3345tableopts-list = tableopts-list tableopts | tableopts
3346tableopts      = "persist" | "const" | "counters" | "file" string |
3347                 "{" [ tableaddr-list ] "}"
3348tableaddr-list = tableaddr-list [ "," ] tableaddr-spec | tableaddr-spec
3349tableaddr-spec = [ "!" ] tableaddr [ "/" mask-bits ]
3350tableaddr      = hostname | ifspec | "self" |
3351                 ipv4-dotted-quad | ipv6-coloned-hex
3352
3353altq-rule      = "altq on" interface-name queueopts-list
3354                 "queue" subqueue
3355queue-rule     = "queue" string [ "on" interface-name ] queueopts-list
3356                 subqueue
3357
3358anchor-rule    = "anchor" [ string ] [ ( "in" | "out" ) ] [ "on" ifspec ]
3359                 [ af ] [ protospec ] [ hosts ] [ filteropt-list ] [ "{" ]
3360
3361anchor-close   = "}"
3362
3363trans-anchors  = ( "nat-anchor" | "rdr-anchor" | "binat-anchor" ) string
3364                 [ "on" ifspec ] [ af ] [ "proto" ] [ protospec ] [ hosts ]
3365
3366load-anchor    = "load anchor" string "from" filename
3367
3368queueopts-list = queueopts-list queueopts | queueopts
3369queueopts      = [ "bandwidth" bandwidth-spec ] |
3370                 [ "qlimit" number ] | [ "tbrsize" number ] |
3371                 [ "priority" number ] | [ schedulers ]
3372schedulers     = ( cbq-def | priq-def | hfsc-def )
3373bandwidth-spec = "number" ( "b" | "Kb" | "Mb" | "Gb" | "%" )
3374
3375etheraction    = "pass" | "block"
3376action         = "pass" | "match" | "block" [ return ] | [ "no" ] "scrub"
3377return         = "drop" | "return" | "return-rst" [ "( ttl" number ")" ] |
3378                 "return-icmp" [ "(" icmpcode [ [ "," ] icmp6code ] ")" ] |
3379                 "return-icmp6" [ "(" icmp6code ")" ]
3380icmpcode       = ( icmp-code-name | icmp-code-number )
3381icmp6code      = ( icmp6-code-name | icmp6-code-number )
3382
3383ifspec         = ( [ "!" ] ( interface-name | interface-group ) ) |
3384                 "{" interface-list "}"
3385interface-list = [ "!" ] ( interface-name | interface-group )
3386                 [ [ "," ] interface-list ]
3387route          = ( "route-to" | "reply-to" | "dup-to" )
3388                 ( routehost | "{" routehost-list "}" )
3389                 [ pooltype ]
3390af             = "inet" | "inet6"
3391
3392etherprotospec = "proto" ( proto-number | "{" etherproto-list "}" )
3393etherproto-list	= proto-number [ [ "," ] etherproto-list ]
3394protospec      = "proto" ( proto-name | proto-number |
3395                 "{" proto-list "}" )
3396proto-list     = ( proto-name | proto-number ) [ [ "," ] proto-list ]
3397
3398etherhosts     = "from" macaddress "to" macaddress
3399macaddress     = mac | mac "/" masklen | mac "&" mask
3400
3401hosts          = "all" |
3402                 "from" ( "any" | "no-route" | "urpf-failed" | "self" | host |
3403                 "{" host-list "}" ) [ port ] [ os ]
3404                 "to"   ( "any" | "no-route" | "self" | host |
3405                 "{" host-list "}" ) [ port ]
3406
3407ipspec         = "any" | host | "{" host-list "}"
3408host           = [ "!" ] ( address [ "/" mask-bits ] | "\*(Lt" string "\*(Gt" )
3409redirhost      = address [ "/" mask-bits ]
3410routehost      = "(" interface-name [ address [ "/" mask-bits ] ] ")"
3411address        = ( interface-name | interface-group |
3412                 "(" ( interface-name | interface-group ) ")" |
3413                 hostname | ipv4-dotted-quad | ipv6-coloned-hex )
3414host-list      = host [ [ "," ] host-list ]
3415redirhost-list = redirhost [ [ "," ] redirhost-list ]
3416routehost-list = routehost [ [ "," ] routehost-list ]
3417
3418port           = "port" ( unary-op | binary-op | "{" op-list "}" )
3419portspec       = "port" ( number | name ) [ ":" ( "*" | number | name ) ]
3420os             = "os"  ( os-name | "{" os-list "}" )
3421user           = "user" ( unary-op | binary-op | "{" op-list "}" )
3422group          = "group" ( unary-op | binary-op | "{" op-list "}" )
3423
3424unary-op       = [ "=" | "!=" | "\*(Lt" | "\*(Le" | "\*(Gt" | "\*(Ge" ]
3425                 ( name | number )
3426binary-op      = number ( "\*(Lt\*(Gt" | "\*(Gt\*(Lt" | ":" ) number
3427op-list        = ( unary-op | binary-op ) [ [ "," ] op-list ]
3428
3429os-name        = operating-system-name
3430os-list        = os-name [ [ "," ] os-list ]
3431
3432flags          = "flags" ( [ flag-set ] "/"  flag-set | "any" )
3433flag-set       = [ "F" ] [ "S" ] [ "R" ] [ "P" ] [ "A" ] [ "U" ] [ "E" ]
3434                 [ "W" ]
3435
3436icmp-type      = "icmp-type" ( icmp-type-code | "{" icmp-list "}" )
3437icmp6-type     = "icmp6-type" ( icmp-type-code | "{" icmp-list "}" )
3438icmp-type-code = ( icmp-type-name | icmp-type-number )
3439                 [ "code" ( icmp-code-name | icmp-code-number ) ]
3440icmp-list      = icmp-type-code [ [ "," ] icmp-list ]
3441
3442tos            = ( "lowdelay" | "throughput" | "reliability" |
3443                 [ "0x" ] number )
3444
3445state-opts     = state-opt [ [ "," ] state-opts ]
3446state-opt      = ( "max" number | "no-sync" | timeout | "sloppy" |
3447                 "source-track" [ ( "rule" | "global" ) ] |
3448                 "max-src-nodes" number | "max-src-states" number |
3449                 "max-src-conn" number |
3450                 "max-src-conn-rate" number "/" number |
3451                 "overload" "\*(Lt" string "\*(Gt" [ "flush" ] |
3452                 "if-bound" | "floating" | "pflow" )
3453
3454fragmentation  = [ "fragment reassemble" ]
3455
3456timeout-list   = timeout [ [ "," ] timeout-list ]
3457timeout        = ( "tcp.first" | "tcp.opening" | "tcp.established" |
3458                 "tcp.closing" | "tcp.finwait" | "tcp.closed" |
3459                 "sctp.first" | "sctp.opening" | "sctp.established" |
3460                 "sctp.closing" | "sctp.closed" |
3461                 "udp.first" | "udp.single" | "udp.multiple" |
3462                 "icmp.first" | "icmp.error" |
3463                 "other.first" | "other.single" | "other.multiple" |
3464                 "frag" | "interval" | "src.track" |
3465                 "adaptive.start" | "adaptive.end" ) number
3466
3467limit-list     = limit-item [ [ "," ] limit-list ]
3468limit-item     = ( "states" | "frags" | "src-nodes" ) number
3469
3470pooltype       = ( "bitmask" | "random" |
3471                 "source-hash" [ ( hex-key | string-key ) ] |
3472                 "round-robin" ) [ sticky-address ]
3473
3474subqueue       = string | "{" queue-list "}"
3475queue-list     = string [ [ "," ] string ]
3476cbq-def        = "cbq" [ "(" cbq-opt [ [ "," ] cbq-opt ] ")" ]
3477priq-def       = "priq" [ "(" priq-opt [ [ "," ] priq-opt ] ")" ]
3478hfsc-def       = "hfsc" [ "(" hfsc-opt [ [ "," ] hfsc-opt ] ")" ]
3479cbq-opt        = ( "default" | "borrow" | "red" | "ecn" | "rio" )
3480priq-opt       = ( "default" | "red" | "ecn" | "rio" )
3481hfsc-opt       = ( "default" | "red" | "ecn" | "rio" |
3482                 linkshare-sc | realtime-sc | upperlimit-sc )
3483linkshare-sc   = "linkshare" sc-spec
3484realtime-sc    = "realtime" sc-spec
3485upperlimit-sc  = "upperlimit" sc-spec
3486sc-spec        = ( bandwidth-spec |
3487                 "(" bandwidth-spec number bandwidth-spec ")" )
3488include        = "include" filename
3489.Ed
3490.Sh FILES
3491.Bl -tag -width "/etc/protocols" -compact
3492.It Pa /etc/hosts
3493Host name database.
3494.It Pa /etc/pf.conf
3495Default location of the ruleset file.
3496The file has to be created manually as it is not installed with a
3497standard installation.
3498.It Pa /etc/pf.os
3499Default location of OS fingerprints.
3500.It Pa /etc/protocols
3501Protocol name database.
3502.It Pa /etc/services
3503Service name database.
3504.El
3505.Sh SEE ALSO
3506.Xr altq 4 ,
3507.Xr carp 4 ,
3508.Xr icmp 4 ,
3509.Xr icmp6 4 ,
3510.Xr ip 4 ,
3511.Xr ip6 4 ,
3512.Xr pf 4 ,
3513.Xr pflow 4 ,
3514.Xr pfsync 4 ,
3515.Xr sctp 4 ,
3516.Xr tcp 4 ,
3517.Xr udp 4 ,
3518.Xr hosts 5 ,
3519.Xr pf.os 5 ,
3520.Xr protocols 5 ,
3521.Xr services 5 ,
3522.Xr ftp-proxy 8 ,
3523.Xr pfctl 8 ,
3524.Xr pflogd 8
3525.Sh HISTORY
3526The
3527.Nm
3528file format first appeared in
3529.Ox 3.0 .
3530