look in 'man pfctl' and search for killing active sessions.

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Martijn van Duren <martijn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello misc,
>
> Today I watch the current connections on my small home server and I
> noticed an unfamiliar ftp-connection. Upon inspecting the connection I
> noticed it was a brute force attack, so I fired up my pfctl-utility and
> tried to block the attack by adding the ip to my quick drop table.
> After adding the ip to the table I noticed that the connection was still
> happily active and even reloading my entire ruleset with pfctl
> -f /etc/pf.conf didn't help, so I resorted to tcpdrop.
>
> My question is, is it possible to destroy an active connection by
> something like adding an ip to a drop quick table (did I miss a certain
> flag?) or do I, in an event that something like this happens again,
> always have to perform a two stage drop?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Martijn

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