Pf Configuration Incompatible With Pf Program Version Guide

pfctl -sr | grep "api_sources"

He VPN’d in, his coffee cold before he’d even poured it. The first command was ritual.

Line 87. Julian scrolled through the config. Line 87 was a routine pass in rule for a backend API subnet.

The old PF (the one running on 7.4) had been lenient. It saw the curly braces, expanded the list in memory, and carried on. The new PF was a stricter grammarian. It saw the same syntax, declared it heresy, and refused to load any rules at all. Zero firewall. No state table. No blocking. No logging. pf configuration incompatible with pf program version

His stomach turned to ice. Current. Not -release . Not -stable . Someone—a junior with a cowboy hat and a cron job—had pointed their package repository to the bleeding-edge snapshots. And the new PF, the one in 7.5-current , had changed.

pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf

Silence. Then the gentle tick of the rule counter. pfctl -sr | grep "api_sources" He VPN’d in,

“Firewall node gw-04-dfw in CARP backup state. Packet filter service failed to start.”

The rule was there. Clean. PF was running. CARP sync re-established. The pager fell silent.

Julian’s hands flew. He couldn’t rewrite the whole config at 3:30 AM. He had one shot. Julian scrolled through the config

He never trusted -current again.

OpenBSD 7.5-current (GENERIC) #5

gw-04-dfw wasn't just in a backup state. It was a naked machine on the public internet, its interface wide open.