On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:16:08PM -0300, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote:
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> Stuart Henderson escreveu:
> > On 2008-07-14, Charlie Clark <cgc@lemon-computing.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> I have noticed that you are unable to view the currently loaded options 
> >> for pf using pfctl, even 'pfctl -sa' doesn't show the options eg. set 
> >> skip on tun0.
> >>     
> >
> > Some of the "set" options aren't directly passed to PF, they're
> > just used in pfctl. Others are available from various modifiers to
> > pfctl -s, e.g. for skip rules:
> >
> >              -s Interfaces  Show the list of interfaces and interface drivers
> >                             available to PF.  When used together with -v, it
> >                             additionally lists which interfaces have skip
> >                             rules activated.  When used together with -vv, in-
> >                             terface statistics are also shown.  -i can be used
> >                             to select an interface or a group of interfaces.
> >
> >
> >   
> Another RTFM thread. I think there should be more emphasis about how
> good and complete openbsd doc is, on the download page of the site, to
> avoid this kind of thread.

Good documentation is truly an asset to a project, as is a supportive
community.  Help offered by that community is usually appreciated
regardless of whether or not everyone thinks it should have been
provided.  Discussion leads to education and questions can trigger
improvements.

I believe the original question is valid.  I've read the manual and I
don't think the answer is obvious - if it is, please excuse me.

Yes the manual tells you how to query the timeouts, skipped interfaces
and other things but it doesn't clearly state how you can query the
current block policy, state policy or optimization settings for example.
The question does not deserve being labelled the beginning of another
RTFM thread.

Nathan Rickerby