The Book of PF

by HANSTEEN, PETER N.M.

• ISBN13: 9781593271657
• ISBN10: 1593271654
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2007-12-01
• Publisher: No Starch Press

Summary

OpenBSD's stateful packet filter, PF, offers an amazing feature set and support across the major BSD platforms. Like most firewall software though, unlocking PF's full potential takes a good teacher. Peter N.M. Hansteen's PF website and conference tutorials have helped thousands of users build the networks they need using PF. The Book of PF is the product of Hansteen's knowledge and experience, teaching good practices as well as bare facts and software options. Throughout the book, Hansteen emphasizes the importance of staying in control by having a written network specification, using macros to make rule sets more readable, and performing rigid testing when loading in new rules.

Author Biography

Peter N. M. Hansteen is a consultant, writer and sysadmin based in Bergen, Norway. A longtime Freenix advocate, Hansteen is a frequent lecturer on FreeBSD and OpenBSD topics. His expertise as a documentation consultant (and humorous work with the RFC 1149 implementation team) have helped him gain regard in Norwegian IT publications. The Book of PF, Hansteen's first book, is an expanded follow-up to his very popular online PF tutorial.

Table of Contents

What PF is	p. 1
Let's get on with it	p. 7
Into the real world	p. 17
Wireless networks made easy	p. 33
Bigger or trickier networks	p. 45
Turning the tables for proactive defense	p. 67
Queues, shaping, and redundancy	p. 87
Logging, monitoring, and statistics	p. 107
Getting your setup just right	p. 121
Resources	p. 135
A note on hardware support	p. 141
Index	p. 147
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