Chapter 10. Getting Your Setup Just Right

Getting Your Setup Just Right

By now, you’ve spent significant time designing your network and implementing that design in your PF configuration. Getting your setup just right—that is, removing any remaining setup bugs and inefficiencies—can be quite challenging at times.

This chapter describes options and methods that will help you get the setup you need. First, we’ll take a look at global options and settings that can have a profound influence on how your configuration behaves.

Things You Can Tweak and What You Probably Should Leave Alone

Network configurations are inherently very tweakable. While browsing the pf.conf man page or other ...

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