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Onlamp: interview OpenBSD PF Developers, Part 2

Contributed by grey on from the developers being interviewed again dept.

Thanks to Stelianos G. Sfakianakis and others who submitted a link to part two of this interview.

Federico Biancuzzi's second part of the interview can be found here: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html

For those who missed part one, which we previously reported on here, you can also find that interview at this location: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html

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  1. By Anonymous Coward (67.70.164.207) on

    * return-rst now works on IPless bridges Wow! Is this in 3.5 or just for 3.5-current?

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    1. By Brad (216.138.200.42) brad at comstyle dot com on

      -current only.

  2. By Dan (80.178.98.65) on

    After using CheckPoint for few years: I understand why filtering layer 7 is not wanted in the kernel, but how can a rule in squide match a specific user? ,how can authpf influance squide? how altq can manage qos for different users after the proxy is givven the traffic? how can I "ipsec" traffic from specific user? I think that some API should be outthere for proxies to talk with PF for extracting data like usernames, pf_labels, or for seting altq parameters...

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    1. By djm@ (203.217.28.239) on

      How does CheckPoint know this? Most of the time it just associates a user with an IP address. Authpf is one example of how this can be done. For protocols like http, one could have squid or a more lightweight proxy to add the user's IP address into a table upon authentication. This wouldn't be much work for someone building a firewall platform.

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