On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 11:55:08PM -0400, Anders Langworthy wrote: > I couldn't find clarification on this in the manpages and it seems to > be a common misconception. Perhaps a note like the following would be > beneficial? (Apologies for gmail line mangling) >
hi. a tweaked version of your diff committed. thanks for the mail. jmc Index: pfctl.8 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/pfctl/pfctl.8,v retrieving revision 1.146 diff -u -r1.146 pfctl.8 --- pfctl.8 12 Sep 2010 16:36:20 -0000 1.146 +++ pfctl.8 13 Sep 2010 20:07:25 -0000 @@ -208,6 +208,9 @@ Flush the queue rules. .It Fl F Cm rules Flush the filter rules. +Note that this puts the packet filter in a +.Cm pass all +state. .It Fl F Cm states Flush the state table (NAT and filter). .It Fl F Cm Sources @@ -222,7 +225,8 @@ Flush all of the above. .El .It Fl f Ar file -Load the rules contained in +Replace the current ruleset with +the rules contained in .Ar file . This .Ar file
