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Aug 8, 2022 at 2:28 history became hot network question
Aug 7, 2022 at 20:36 vote accept ahron
Aug 7, 2022 at 19:26 answer added thrig timeline score: 7
Aug 7, 2022 at 18:51 comment added ilkkachu or clear all or some of the states with pfctl -F states or pfctl -k, I guess. (based on the pfctl man page and the docs). I don't really know about pf so I'm not sure I dare post this as an answer...
Aug 7, 2022 at 18:40 comment added ahron Ah, the state does the trick. Thanks!
Aug 7, 2022 at 18:39 comment added ilkkachu pf looks to have something similar, by default, the man page says: "By default pf(4) filters packets statefully; the first time a packet matches a pass rule, a state entry is created; for subsequent packets the filter checks whether the packet matches any state. If it does, the packet is passed without evaluation of any rules."
Aug 7, 2022 at 18:38 comment added ilkkachu if you block all traffic, then yes, it should block your existing connection too. (It should hang, not break, at least not immediately.) But e.g. with iptables on Linux, it's rather common to accept established connections early in the ruleset, and only do detailed checking on new connections.
Aug 7, 2022 at 18:27 history asked ahron CC BY-SA 4.0