[pfsync w/o carp]

* Mark Felder <f...@feld.me> [2013-07-03 16:37]:
> First of all, the states of node 1 being synced to node 2 and vice
> versa is worthless because they have different IP addresses; the
> states wont match anything.

orly.
have you actually LOOKED at your state table?
pfctl -vvss to the rescue.

a tcp connection from 81.209.180.1 to 129.128.5.194 cares about wether the
intermediate firewall has 80.86.183.252 or 80.86.183.253 how exactly?
how do bridges work at all?

miracles all over the place!

> Secondly, you'll probably end up dealing with the nodes fighting
> each other as they sync back and forth. If a state from node1 is
> synced to node2 and node2 decides to expire that session because it
> hasn't been used it will tell node1 to remove that session as well.

sigh. this is completely wrong, too.

> I've never even attempted to set this up in a lab and I know
> nothing of the pfsync/pf code,

yeah, you made that obvious.

> but I assume

aha.

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