Authpf: authenticated routing and firewalling on OpenBSD
network, security, shell | pfortuny | (0)
In our detailed description of OpenBSD's packet filter (here and there) we mentioned authpf, and spoke of it as a useful tool, but what is it use? I tend to understand it as an instrument for authenticated routing, that is, a way to provide routing (and firewalling etc...) services only to authenticated users.
Think of a corporate setting with different users having access to different services according to their identities (and not according to their computer's IPs, which may well be dynamic or different). For example, user boss may access the firm's MAIN smb (ports 139, 435) server and any http ...