Configure PF for desktop 4.1

#11 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 09:10 AM

torrfisken wrote:
> On Oct 4, 5:06 pm, torrfisken <tgran...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Oct 4, 10:12 am, Peter N. M. Hansteen <pe...@bsdly.net> wrote:
>>
>>> torrfisken <tgran...@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> I've seen the link you are relating to but I looked at it closer now
>>>> that you mentioned it. That setup is for server, is it the same for
>>>> desktop?
>>> On a typical desktop, not running any services and a system you trust,
>>> 4.1 or newer, you could go really minimalist:
>>> block all
>>> pass out
>>> --
>>> Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation teamhttp://bsdly.blogspot.com/http://www.datadok.no/http://www.nuug.no/
>>> "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic"
>>> delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
>> I followed your excellent tutorial till punkt och pricka, only I chose
>> the "Slightly stricter" in one of the last pages. But now I cannot
>> download any packages from ftp. How should I modify the ruleset?
>> Mange takk in advance,
>
> I solved it by disabling PF for a little while, then it turned itself
> on again automatically. I still don't know how to configure PF for
> ftp, but the most urgent problem for me now is that I cannot view
> hhtps pages, for example I cannot login to my Gmail account from the
> OBSD computer.
>
FTP is an evil protocol. See http://cvs.openbsd.org/faq/pf/ftp.html.

HTTPS should work with the simple ruleset we are using here.
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