On Apr 17, 2014, at 3:21, David Chisnall <thera...@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> For a little while, I've had an issue with the machine that sits on the edge 
> of my network deciding to start avahi as soon as a network is available, 
> meaning that it then runs mDNS advertisements on the external interface and 
> not the wireless one, requiring a manual restart once the machine boots.  I'm 
> now seeing something similar with pf - it manages to start before the 
> external interface comes up and so silently ignores all of the rules for 
> routing packets off the network.
> 
> Do we have a mechanism for stating that certain services should not be 
> started until ALL of the interfaces are up, rather than just the first one?  
> Or even of restarting them when a new network appears?
> 

I always thought the proper solution here was pf's built-in keywords "egress" 
and "ingress" interface names so you don't have to specify interface names that 
may or may not exist at the time the pf rules load.

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