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ivanivan
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totally open fbsd router in virtualbox

TL;DR - I'd like to set up a FreeBSD vm with one network card on my home LAN (192.168.1.0/24) and one on a private-internal-to-virtualbox network (10.9.9.0/24) and pass any and all traffic back and forth between the two.

Long time Linux user (Debian on servers) but only been using FreeBSD for about a day :)

Anyway, for my experimental stuff I have a virtualbox machine with 2 network interfaces - one bridged to my home LAN, one on an internal-only network. This machine is set up to be a block-nothing router, simply passing packets between eth0 and eth1 no matter source or destination. Easy enough to do with iptables -

iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth1 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT

But I've been trying to get this to work with pf and I'm only having partial success.

With

gateway_enable="YES"
pf_enable="YES"
pf_rules="/etc/pf.conf"

in my /etc/rc.conf and /etc/pf.conf containing

pass from em1:network to any keep state
pass from em0:network to any keep state
pass in inet proto tcp to any keep state
pass in inet proto udp to any keep state
pass out inet proto tcp to any keep state
pass out inet proto udp to any keep state

I can start a live disc vm attached only to internal and set the em1's IP as the default gateway, and be able to ping em1, ping em0, but I can't ping the host machine vbox is running on or any other machine on my LAN or connect via http, ssh, etc.

[root@bsdtest ~]# pfctl -sa
FILTER RULES:
pass in inet proto tcp all flags S/SA keep state
pass in inet proto udp all keep state
pass out inet proto tcp all flags S/SA keep state
pass out inet proto udp all keep state
pass inet from 10.9.9.0/24 to any flags S/SA keep state
pass inet from 192.168.1.0/24 to any flags S/SA keep state

STATES:
all tcp 192.168.1.90:22 <- 192.168.1.10:48102       ESTABLISHED:ESTABLISHED
all udp 192.168.1.2:53 <- 10.9.9.5:59075       NO_TRAFFIC:SINGLE
all udp 10.9.9.5:59075 -> 192.168.1.2:53       SINGLE:NO_TRAFFIC
all udp 192.168.1.2:53 <- 10.9.9.5:34207       NO_TRAFFIC:SINGLE
all udp 10.9.9.5:34207 -> 192.168.1.2:53       SINGLE:NO_TRAFFIC
all udp 192.168.1.2:53 <- 10.9.9.5:43515       NO_TRAFFIC:SINGLE
all udp 10.9.9.5:43515 -> 192.168.1.2:53       SINGLE:NO_TRAFFIC
all udp 192.168.1.2:53 <- 10.9.9.5:1636       NO_TRAFFIC:SINGLE
all udp 10.9.9.5:1636 -> 192.168.1.2:53       SINGLE:NO_TRAFFIC
all udp 192.168.1.2:53 <- 10.9.9.5:60124       NO_TRAFFIC:SINGLE
all udp 10.9.9.5:60124 -> 192.168.1.2:53       SINGLE:NO_TRAFFIC
all udp 192.168.1.2:53 <- 10.9.9.5:8866       NO_TRAFFIC:SINGLE
all udp 10.9.9.5:8866 -> 192.168.1.2:53       SINGLE:NO_TRAFFIC
all udp 192.168.1.2:53 <- 10.9.9.5:25534       NO_TRAFFIC:SINGLE
all udp 10.9.9.5:25534 -> 192.168.1.2:53       SINGLE:NO_TRAFFIC
all udp 192.168.1.2:53 <- 10.9.9.5:30141       NO_TRAFFIC:SINGLE
all udp 10.9.9.5:30141 -> 192.168.1.2:53       SINGLE:NO_TRAFFIC

INFO:
Status: Enabled for 0 days 00:08:28           Debug: Urgent

State Table                          Total             Rate
  current entries                       17               
  searches                            1990            3.9/s
  inserts                              253            0.5/s
  removals                             236            0.5/s
Counters
  match                                253            0.5/s
  bad-offset                             0            0.0/s
  fragment                               0            0.0/s
  short                                  0            0.0/s
  normalize                              0            0.0/s
  memory                                 0            0.0/s
  bad-timestamp                          0            0.0/s
  congestion                             0            0.0/s
  ip-option                              0            0.0/s
  proto-cksum                            0            0.0/s
  state-mismatch                         0            0.0/s
  state-insert                           0            0.0/s
  state-limit                            0            0.0/s
  src-limit                              0            0.0/s
  synproxy                               0            0.0/s
  map-failed                             0            0.0/s

TIMEOUTS:
tcp.first                   120s
tcp.opening                  30s
tcp.established           86400s
tcp.closing                 900s
tcp.finwait                  45s
tcp.closed                   90s
tcp.tsdiff                   30s
udp.first                    60s
udp.single                   30s
udp.multiple                 60s
icmp.first                   20s
icmp.error                   10s
other.first                  60s
other.single                 30s
other.multiple               60s
frag                         30s
interval                     10s
adaptive.start             6000 states
adaptive.end              12000 states
src.track                     0s

LIMITS:
states        hard limit    10000
src-nodes     hard limit    10000
frags         hard limit     5000
table-entries hard limit   200000

OS FINGERPRINTS:
758 fingerprints loaded
[root@bsdtest ~]# 

Any ideas? The lines regarding udp traffic to 192.168.1.2 from 10.9.9.5 (my live disc) would be for DNS to my home LAN name server, but no responses ever arrive... Here's what a http request shows -

[root@bsdtest ~]# pfctl -sa | grep 80
all tcp 192.168.1.10:80 <- 10.9.9.5:59436       CLOSED:SYN_SENT
all tcp 10.9.9.5:59436 -> 192.168.1.10:80       SYN_SENT:CLOSED
all tcp 192.168.1.10:80 <- 10.9.9.5:59438       CLOSED:SYN_SENT
all tcp 10.9.9.5:59438 -> 192.168.1.10:80       SYN_SENT:CLOSED

Ideas?

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