On 2011-01-31, Josh Smith <juice...@gmail.com> wrote: > misc@, > > I recently acquired a playstation 3 and have been running into some > difficulties playing it online behing my openbsd gateway. After doing > some research and testing I have been able to overcome most of these > problems by appending the static-port option to my nat rule. I > understand the concept that this prevents pf from modifying the source > port on the packets as they are natted. But I am curious as to what > implications "flipping this switch has". At least I'm guessing there > must be something since it is not the default behavior.
if you use static-port and try and open a second connection to the same host with the same source port, from any machine natted to the same address, that connection will fail.
