Activating temporary rules in static pf.conf

2002-10-14 Thread Matthew Sweet
Hello, Sorry to bother everyone with this miniscule question. I am trying to figure out how to add temporary rules to pass traffic for a particular service? What I am trying to do is set up a test ftp server for Internet customers to use on a controlled basis. A tech would run a command (v

RE: Activating temporary rules in static pf.conf

2002-10-14 Thread Robert Schwartz
authpf?

RE: Activating temporary rules in static pf.conf

2002-10-14 Thread Matthew Sweet
I thought about that, but authpf only allows the source address the ssh client originated from. In this case, the ssh client will be a tech. The source address the ftp will come from will be different (the source IP will be varied customers of ours with varied IP addresses). Customers will not hav

Fwd: Input requested for second edition of "Firewalls and Internet Security"

2002-10-14 Thread Enrico Sorge
I'm sure it matters :) bye BB >From: Steve Bellovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Input requested for second edition of "Firewalls and Internet > Security" >Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 12:08:03 -0400 > >We've just about finished the draft manuscript for the second >edition of

Re: Activating temporary rules in static pf.conf

2002-10-14 Thread Can Erkin Acar
You can write a script to automatically generate tour rules file similiar to the one recently announced on deadly.org: http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20020919022924 Another approach is to modify authpf to add/remove rules based on your requirements. Finally, I have been working on a way

Re: RFC: dynamic rules

2002-10-14 Thread Can Erkin Acar
Sorry for the late reply, I have been really busy last week. On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 12:38:09PM +0200, Ed White wrote: > > I will come up with better examples later. promise. > > I'm really interested, because I didn't understand what is the objective ;-) The objective is to allow applications

Re: RFC: dynamic rules

2002-10-14 Thread Mike Frantzen
> > > I will come up with better examples later. promise. > > I'm really interested, because I didn't understand what is the objective ;-) > The objective is to allow applications to insert and remove rules dynamically. > The present mechanisms for adding/removing rules are too general to be > eas

Re: RFC: dynamic rules

2002-10-14 Thread Daniel Hartmeier
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 04:46:33PM -0400, Mike Frantzen wrote: > > To make matters > > more complex, if the application crashes, it may leave permanent rules > > in the ruleset. > > Aha! That is a real issue. The way we had talked about solving that up > in Calgary was to extend proc so rules

Re: RFC: dynamic rules

2002-10-14 Thread Henning Brauer
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 04:46:33PM -0400, Mike Frantzen wrote: > Aha! That is a real issue. The way we had talked about solving that up > in Calgary was to extend proc so rules could be tied to a process. When > the process goes away, it calls back into PF which removes the rules. > Were we tal