Re: Understanding if-bound vs floating state policy

Igor Podlesny <[email protected]> Fri, 13 Dec 2019 22:12:46 +0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.pf
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On Fri, 13 Dec 2019 at 22:00, Victor Sudakov <[email protected]> wrote:
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> But then, what is the real difference betwttn if-bound and global?

it's not global but rather "floating". man pf.conf says:

"... floating States can match packets on any interfaces (the default). ..."

IOW, floating state doesn't care which interface gets reply traffic,
meanwhile if-bound does.
This adds something like urpf-failed protection to the state table.

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