Re: Layer-2 filtering in NPF

> On 5 Jul 2025, at 3:05 AM, Emmanuel Nyarko <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On 5 Jul 2025, at 1:01 AM, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Apparently I'm having a different upgrade problem.
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>> I had a rule in npf.conf that was accepted by my previous -current
>> (early May?), and now it isn't.  That led to the default rules in
>> npf_conf operating, and those did not allow dhcpcd to succeed.
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>> The rule that is now objected to looks like
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>>   pass in proto udp to any port 11000-11002
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>> (but not those numbers).  Reading the man page, port-opts is
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>>   port-opts       = "port" ( port-num | port-from "-" port-to | var-name )
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>> which indeed my line did not match, so I changed to
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>>   pass in proto udp to any port 11000 - 11002
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>> but I didn't see this in the announced changes.
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> Okay i have seen the issue.
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> i included a rule for colon separated Mac addresses in lex, so the parser is choosing that ahead of the port range and striking a syntax error.

i mean "hyphen"
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> i might as well remove that.
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> Emmanuel
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Emmanuel