pf sending an ACK storm?!

2002-11-28 Thread Jedi/Sector One
Hello. I noticed something strange with pf, 100% reproducible on OpenBSD 3.2 and today's -current. brutus is an OpenBSD-current NAT gateway. synchron is a Linux workstation whoose gateway is brutus. If I ssh from synchron to brutus and disable the firewall: synchron> ssh brutus

Re: pf sending an ACK storm?!

2002-11-28 Thread Daniel Hartmeier
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:13:28PM +0100, Jedi/Sector One wrote: > brutus> sudo pfctl -d > > synchron gets flooded by brutus, the 100Mb link gets immediately saturated > and the only way to calm the storm is to change the IP address of synchron. The ssh connection to synchron<->brutus isn't by

Re: pf sending an ACK storm?!

2002-11-28 Thread Jedi/Sector One
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:47:37PM +0100, Daniel Hartmeier wrote: > The ssh connection to synchron<->brutus isn't by any chance filtered > statefully, using modulate state? :) It is. pass in quick on $INT proto { icmp, udp } all label internal-in pass in quick on $INT proto tcp all modulate sta

Re: pf sending an ACK storm?!

2002-11-28 Thread Daniel Hartmeier
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:53:57PM +0059, Jedi/Sector One wrote: > > The ssh connection to synchron<->brutus isn't by any chance filtered > > statefully, using modulate state? :) > > It is. Can you try to get a tcpdump -nvvvpSi $INT (-S shows absolute sequence numbers), ideally a couple of pac

Re: pf sending an ACK storm?!

2002-11-28 Thread Jedi/Sector One
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 08:03:41PM +0100, Daniel Hartmeier wrote: > Can you try to get a tcpdump -nvvvpSi $INT (-S shows absolute sequence > numbers) [snip snip] Stuff sent privately to Daniel. -- __ /*- Frank DENIS (Jedi/Sector One) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -*\ __ \ '/http://www