Firewall rules hitcount for pfSense 2.1.5 and 2.2.4

athurdent

Something seems odd with pfSense handling auto-added Port Forward rules. They get a name like "USER_RULE: NAT …" and there's no tracker ID. As I use Multi-WAN and some Port Forwards were just copied from WAN1 to WAN2, pfctl -vvsr shows two rules with the same name. That breaks the new counters...
Edit: Put in unique descriptions, still no luck.

athurdent

On to the next problem, Port Aliases. While pf let's us write single-line rules with something like

port {  25  465  587 }

it automatically creates a separate rule for every single port. pfctl will show three rules for the example above whilst our ruleset only has a single rule for this.

marcelloc

Updated the code for 2.2.4 to include kill states option for specific rule.

rules_count_kill_states.png_thumb

marcelloc

@athurdent:

On to the next problem, Port Aliases. While pf let's us write single-line rules with something like
port {  25  465  587 }
it automatically creates a separate rule for every single port. pfctl will show three rules for the example above whilst our ruleset only has a single rule for this.

I'll try to simulate it.

athurdent

@marcelloc:

Updated the code for 2.2.4 to include kill states option for specific rule.

Wasn't able to try it out yet. But if that means, the byte counter does not show anymore when hovering there with the mouse, that would be too bad. Maybe the Hits field could show
Packets(Bytes)/States
or something similar?

marcelloc

@athurdent:

Wasn't able to try it out yet. But if that means, the byte counter does not show anymore when hovering there with the mouse, that would be too bad. Maybe the Hits field could show
Packets(Bytes)/States
or something similar?

I'ts still working inside the td with mouse over, I've just included the option to kill when there are active states and only over the numbers.

marcelloc

@athurdent:

Something seems odd with pfSense handling auto-added Port Forward rules. They get a name like "USER_RULE: NAT …" and there's no tracker ID.

Edit and save rule created by nat to force the trackerid

marcelloc

@athurdent:

On to the next problem, Port Aliases. While pf let's us write single-line rules with something like
port {  25  465  587 }
it automatically creates a separate rule for every single port. pfctl will show three rules for the example above whilst our ruleset only has a single rule for this.

check if new code fixes it. (v0.31)

@78(1439883226) pass in quick on em0 reply-to (em0 172.17.12.1) inet proto tcp from any to (self:3) port = http flags S/SA keep state label "USER_RULE: 1439883226"
  [ Evaluations: 17        Packets: 0         Bytes: 0           States: 0     ]
  [ Inserted: pid 23535 State Creations: 3319624344]
@79(1439883226) pass in quick on em0 reply-to (em0 172.17.12.1) inet proto tcp from any to (self:3) port = https flags S/SA keep state label "USER_RULE: 1439883226"
  [ Evaluations: 17        Packets: 763       Bytes: 442121      States: 6     ]
  [ Inserted: pid 23535 State Creations: 3319624408]
@80(1439883226) pass in quick on em0 reply-to (em0 172.17.12.1) inet proto tcp from any to (self:3) port = ssh flags S/SA keep state label "USER_RULE: 1439883226"
  [ Evaluations: 1         Packets: 555       Bytes: 81812       States: 1     ]
  [ Inserted: pid 23535 State Creations: 3321614424]
@81(1439883226) pass in quick on em0 reply-to (em0 172.17.12.1) inet proto tcp from any to (self:3) port = 8443 flags S/SA keep state label "USER_RULE: 1439883226"
  [ Evaluations: 0         Packets: 0         Bytes: 0           States: 0     ]
  [ Inserted: pid 23535 State Creations: 3321614400]
@82(1439883226) pass in quick on em0 reply-to (em0 172.17.12.1) inet proto tcp from any to (self:3) port = domain flags S/SA keep state label "USER_RULE: 1439883226"
  [ Evaluations: 0         Packets: 0         Bytes: 0           States: 0     ]
  [ Inserted: pid 23535 State Creations: 3321614376]

rules_count_kill_states_3.png_thumb

athurdent

Thanks, works great.
But one odd thing I noticed is, that rules with multiple ports like those you fixed seem to get their counter cleared on every filter reload. At the same time, my other "normal" rules do not suffer from this.
Are you seeing this too, or am I doing something wrong?

marcelloc

More features on version 0.4 for pfsense 2.2, now we can view hit count, list and kill States(with ajax to keep it light and fast).

rules_count_kill_states_3.png_thumb

rules_count_show_states.png_thumb

JackL

Very nice!

Good job as always, marcelloc!

[]`s
Jack

athurdent

marcelloc, the lastest update works great, thanks again.

Still, the new hitcount feature reveals that some rules with multiple ports like "{ 25 465 587 }" or multiple protocols like "{ tcp udp }" get their packet/byte counter reset on reload. Evaluations / State Creations seem not affected. Nobody else seeing this?

haddock

Awesome feature!

Can't wait to see this merged upstream! ;D

Gertjan

Good job.
Test-driving it on a 2.2.4. Works as advertised.

Git->Clone->Patch->Push-request this :)

bennyc

+1 thanks Marcello, really useful feature.
Love to see that merged also ;D

marcelloc

Pull request sent do 2.3-DEVELOPMENT

https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/pull/1892

LinuxTracker

Very, very nice.

(Also: One more column of info feels like a step toward widescreen display!)

marcelloc

I suggest all who cant test to do it on 2.2 and/or 2.3-devel and comment on pull request. Maybe with more people testing, it get merged faster…

LinuxTracker

@marcelloc:

I suggest all who cant test to do it on 2.2 and/or 2.3-devel and comment on pull request. Maybe with more people testing, it get merged faster…

Done.

The more I play with this the more I like it.
On mouseover, I get the data I was trying (unsuccessfully) to glean out of pfTop.

marcelloc

@LinuxTracker:

The more I play with this the more I like it.

me too. :)

@LinuxTracker:

On mouseover, I get the data I was trying (unsuccessfully) to glean out of pfTop.

Great!