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The PF User's Guide [0] covers most of what one needs to know for basic firewalling and includes full examples of rulesets.

[0]: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/



And Peter Hansteen's PF tutorial is top notch too:

https://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/

he also has a book that I've heard is great, but don't own (yet)


Thanks for mentioning it. If this is it, it's in O'Reilly's Safari catalog (I've no association, just a Safari account):

    The Book of PF, 3rd Edition
    By: Peter N.M. Hansteen
    Publisher: No Starch Press
    Pub. Date: October 8, 2014
    Print ISBN-13: 978-1-59327-589-1
    Pages in Print Edition: 248
http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/operating-systems-and-s...


The book is amazing, and mostly a reprint of the site.


"man pf.conf" is also very useful.


Well, it's BSD:) Good manpages are one of the things they seem to really win at.




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