I thought that this might be a common occurrence and that it simply wasn't
in the documentation (where I looked).  Is no one else seeing this same
behavior?

By the way, this host is running as a virtual machine inside VMWare ESXi 4.1
(I chose FreeBSD as the guest OS when I initially created the VM).

Matt

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Matt Van Mater <matt.vanma...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> See my configuration at the bottom of this email.  I am looking into why my
> pflog has these ambiguous entries that show source and destination as all
> zeros e.g. 0.0.0.0.0 > 0.0.0.0.0.
>
> I saw that there was a related thread earlier this year asking questions
> that was unresolved/unconfirmed and I would like to get feedback from one of
> the developers (Daniel, Henning?) to confirm my suspicions.  I believe that
> these lines are a result of the log (all) statement, which logs all
> subsequent packets in a stateful session (and not just the first packets
> matching the rules).  If that is true, then IMO the log entries are not very
> intuitive or useful without the true source/destination IP Addresses
> included... I can't grep for src/dst any more, now I assume I would have to
> correlate the session information some other way (e.g. sequence numbers?)
>
> So to put my questions more succinctly:
> 1) Are logs with 0.0.0.0.0 > 0.0.0.0.0 a result of the pf.conf log (all)
> statement, and are therefore an indication of a continuing tcp session?
> 2) Are there any plans to update the logging to represent the actual
> src/dst of these packets?  If not, what is your suggested method for
> correlating these stateful session log entries?
>
>
> By the way, I tried to post this to the pf mailing list but got bounced
> back on the SPAM filters when trying to subscribe.  Same goes for when I
> tried to email Daniel directly to resolve the issue. Can someone get in
> touch with him and inform him of the issue?
>
> My configurations:
> # uname -rsvm
> OpenBSD 4.9 GENERIC#477 amd64
>
>
> # pfctl -s rules
> pass all flags S/SA keep state
> pass in log (all) quick on em0 proto tcp from any to any port = https flags
> S/SA keep state
> pass in log (all) quick on em0 proto tcp from any to any port = ssh flags
> S/SA keep state
> block drop in log (all) on em0 all
> pass out log (all) on em0 all flags S/SA keep state
> block drop in on ! lo0 proto tcp from any to any port 6000:6010
>
>
> # tcpdump -ne -ttt -r /var/log/pflog host 0.0.0.0 | head
> tcpdump: WARNING: snaplen raised from 116 to 160
> Aug 17 16:00:30.673967 rule 2/(match) pass in on em0: 0.0.0.0.0 >
> 0.0.0.0.0: P 142855442:142855478(36) ack 49382696 win 256 (DF)
> Aug 17 16:00:30.867230 rule 2/(match) pass out on em0: 0.0.0.0.0 >
> 0.0.0.0.0: . ack 93472783 win 2190 (DF) [tos 0x10]
> Aug 17 16:01:30.988858 rule 2/(match) pass in on em0: 0.0.0.0.0 >
> 0.0.0.0.0: P 36:72(36) ack 1 win 256 (DF)
> Aug 17 16:01:31.179997 rule 2/(match) pass out on em0: 0.0.0.0.0 >
> 0.0.0.0.0: . ack 93472819 win 2190 (DF) [tos 0x10]
> Aug 17 16:02:15.903119 rule 3/(match) block in on em0: 0.0.0.0.68 >
> 255.255.255.255.67: xid:0x5d366a85 flags:0x8000 [|bootp]
> Aug 17 16:02:31.301720 rule 2/(match) pass in on em0: 0.0.0.0.0 >
> 0.0.0.0.0: P 72:108(36) ack 1 win 256 (DF)
> Aug 17 16:02:31.492758 rule 2/(match) pass out on em0: 0.0.0.0.0 >
> 0.0.0.0.0: . ack 93472855 win 2190 (DF) [tos 0x10]
> Aug 17 16:03:31.615561 rule 2/(match) pass in on em0: 0.0.0.0.0 >
> 0.0.0.0.0: P 108:144(36) ack 1 win 256 (DF)
> Aug 17 16:03:31.815571 rule 2/(match) pass out on em0: 0.0.0.0.0 >
> 0.0.0.0.0: . ack 93472891 win 2190 (DF) [tos 0x10]
> Aug 17 16:04:31.929505 rule 2/(match) pass in on em0: 0.0.0.0.0 >
> 0.0.0.0.0: P 144:180(36) ack 1 win 256 (DF)
>
>
> Thanks,
> Matt

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