pftabled 1.06 review

pftabled daemon is a small helper to make OpenBSD's pf tables reachable from other hosts

License: BSD License File size: 44K Developer: Armin Wolfermann

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pftabled daemon is a small helper to make OpenBSD's pf tables reachable from other hosts. One can add/delete/flush IP addresses to/from a remote table with a single UDP datagram. pftabled icludes a simple client program to do this on the command line.

Usage

pftabled [options...]
-d Run as daemon in the background
-v Log all received packets
-a address Bind to this address (default: 0.0.0.0)
-f table Force requests to use this table
-k keyfile Read authentication key from file
-p port Bind to this port (default: 56789)
-t timeout Remove IPs from table after timeout seconds

Client examples

$ pftabled-client -k /etc/key fw.example.com 56789 spam add 1.2.3.4
$ pftabled-client -k /etc/key fw.example.com 56789 spam del 4.3.2.1/24
$ pftabled-client -k /etc/key fw.example.com 56789 spam flush

What's New in This Release:
A mask field was added to enable addition/deletion of whole networks.
Client option parsing was changed.