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Dd August 7, 2018
Dt NPFD 8
Os
Sh NAME
Nm npfd
Nd packet filter logging and state synchronization daemon
Sh SYNOPSIS
Nm npfd
Op Fl D
Op Fl d Ar delay
Op Fl f Ar filename
Op Fl i Ar interface
Op Fl p Ar pidfile
Op Fl s Ar snaplen
Op Ar expression
Sh DESCRIPTION
Nm
is a background daemon which writes to a file in
Xr pcap 3
format logged packets read from an npflog interface.
The npflog interface is used by
Xr npf 7
to log packets as defined in
Xr npf.conf 5 .
The generated
Xr pcap 3
files can then be analysed using tools such as
Xr tcpdump 8 .
Pp
Nm
closes and then re-opens the log file when it receives
Dv SIGHUP ,
permitting
Xr newsyslog 8
to rotate logfiles automatically.
Dv SIGALRM
causes
Nm
to flush the current logfile buffers to the disk, thus making the most
recent logs available.
The buffers are also flushed every
Ar delay
seconds.
Pp
If the log file contains data after a restart or a
Dv SIGHUP ,
new logs are appended to the existing file.
If the existing log file was created with a different snaplen,
Nm
temporarily uses the old snaplen to keep the log file consistent.
Pp
Nm
tries to preserve the integrity of the log file against I/O errors.
Furthermore, integrity of an existing log file is verified before
appending.
If there is an invalid log file or an I/O error, the log file is moved
out of the way and a new one is created.
If a new file cannot be created, logging is suspended until a
Dv SIGHUP
or a
Dv SIGALRM
is received.
Pp
If
Dv SIGINFO
is received, then
Nm
logs capture statistics to
Xr syslogd 8 .
Pp
The options are as follows:
Bl -tag -width Ds
It Fl D
Debugging mode.
Nm
does not disassociate from the controlling terminal.
It Fl d Ar delay
Time in seconds to delay between automatic flushes of the file.
This may be specified with a value between 5 and 3600 seconds.
If not specified, the default is 60 seconds.
It Fl f Ar filename
Log output filename.
Default is
Pa /var/log/npflog0.pcap .
It Fl i Ar interface
Specifies the
npflog
\" .Xr if_npflog 4
interface to use.
By default,
Nm
will use
Ar npflog0 .
It Fl p Ar pidfile
Writes a file containing the process ID of the program.
The file name has the form
Pa /var/run/npfd.pid .
If the option is not given,
Ar pidfile
defaults to
Pa npfd .
It Fl s Ar snaplen
Analyze at most the first
Ar snaplen
bytes of data from each packet rather than the default of 116.
The default of 116 is adequate for IP, ICMP, TCP, and UDP headers but may
truncate protocol information for other protocols.
Other file parsers may desire a higher snaplen.
\" .It Fl x
\" Check the integrity of an existing log file, and return.
It Ar expression
Selects which packets will be dumped, using the regular language of
Xr tcpdump 8 .
El
Sh FILES
Bl -tag -width /var/run/npflog0.pcap -compact
It Pa /var/run/npfd.pid
Process ID of the currently running
Nm .
It Pa /var/log/npflog0.pcap
Default log file.
El
Sh EXAMPLES
Log specific tcp packets to a different log file with a large snaplen
(useful with a log-all rule to dump complete sessions):
Bd -literal -offset indent
# npfd -s 1600 -f suspicious.log port 80 and host evilhost
Ed
Pp
Log from another
npflog
interface, excluding specific packets:
Bd -literal -offset indent
# npfd -i npflog3 -f network3.log "not (tcp and port 23)"
Ed
Pp
Display binary logs:
Bd -literal -offset indent
# tcpdump -n -e -ttt -r /var/log/npflog0.pcap
Ed
Pp
Display the logs in real time (this does not interfere with the
operation of
Nm ) :
Bd -literal -offset indent
# tcpdump -n -e -ttt -i npflog0
Ed
Pp
Tcpdump has been extended to be able to filter on the
Ox
pfloghdr
structure defined in
Ar sys/net/npf/if_npflog.h .
Tcpdump can restrict the output
to packets logged on a specified interface, a rule number, a reason,
a direction, an IP family or an action.
Pp
Bl -tag -width "ruleset rules " -compact
It ip
Address family equals IPv4.
It ip6
Address family equals IPv6.
It ifname kue0
Interface name equals "kue0".
It on kue0
Interface name equals "kue0".
It ruleset rules
Ruleset name equals "rules".
It rulenum 10
Rule number equals 10.
It reason match
Reason equals match.
\" Also accepts "bad-offset", "fragment", "bad-timestamp", "short",
\" "normalize", "memory", "congestion", "ip-option", "proto-cksum",
\" "state-mismatch", "state-insert", "state-limit", "src-limit",
\" and "synproxy".
It action pass
Action equals pass.
Also accepts "block".
It inbound
The direction was inbound.
It outbound
The direction was outbound.
El
Pp
Display the logs in real time of inbound packets that were blocked on
the wi0 interface:
Bd -literal -offset indent
# tcpdump -n -e -ttt -i npflog0 inbound and action block and on wi0
Ed
Pp
Each
Xr npf 7
rule is marked with an id number, shown using:
Bd -literal -offset indent
# npfctl show
\&...
       block final all apply "log" # id="45"
\&...
Ed
Pp
This id is the rule id shown by tcpdump:
Bd -literal -offset indent
# tcpdump -enr /var/log/npflog0.pcap
\&...
11:26:02.288199 rule 45.rules.0/0(match): block in on sk0: \e
1.2.3.4.46063 > 5.6.7.8.23231: Flags [S], seq 1, win 8192, \e
options [mss 1440], length 0
\&...
Ed
Sh SEE ALSO
Xr pcap 3 ,
Xr npf.conf 5 ,
Xr npf 7 ,
Xr newsyslog 8 ,
Xr npfctl 8 ,
Xr tcpdump 8
Sh HISTORY
The
Nm
command appeared in
Nx 8.0 .
Sh AUTHORS
This manual page was written by
An Can Erkin Acar Aq Mt [email protected] .
Sh CAVEATS
Offline analysis of captured data is advised to alleviate issues with
malicious data intended to exploit bugs in the packet parsing code of
Xr tcpdump 8 .

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