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Old 27th January 2010
joostvgh joostvgh is offline
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hi

I am currently using scripts to load a daypf.conf and nightpf.conf
at night people are allowed to use torrents etc.

so when I enable daypf.conf I would like to flush all connections made (connections to trackers etc although they are not allowed by new pf.conf)

question:
do the states get flushed by disabling and enabling pfctl with another pf.conf?

I googled this and read man page:

pfctl -F all
when I do this, pfctl clears all states but my putty console hangs. this is probably due to my state being flushed too.

my script:
pfctl -d
pfctl -F all
pfctl -e -f /etc/pf.conf

is this the correct way to do it?
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Old 27th January 2010
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i think you need also to flush tables (if you use it in your ruleset) :
pfctl -t <tablename> -T flush
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Old 27th January 2010
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Read man pages of pfctl !
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Old 27th January 2010
J65nko J65nko is offline
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Code:
pfctl -d
pfctl -F all
pfctl -e -f /etc/pf.conf
Interesting problem, I never had to deal with something like this

The first line disables pf. I would not do that. You could just load the new rules and let the existing states/connections terminate naturally.

You will probably say that this would be OK for the transition of the tight, "no torrents during the day" rules to the relaxed rules at night., but not for the night -> day transisiton.
Somebody could start a few torrents and the because of not flushing the states these connections would continue during the day.

For the night->day transition you could bring a temporary third pf.conf into play. One that simply blocks all traffic. That way you do not have a time frame where pf is not enabled.

Code:
# day to night, don't flush states, let them terminate naturally
pfclt -v /etc/pf-night.conf

# night to day
# do not allow new connections 
pfctl -vf block-all.pf
# flush the states
pfctl -F all
# load the restrictive day rules
pfctl -vf pf-day.conf
But I must admit that I am not really sure whether this is the best approach
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