pf synflood mode: 1st ACK reconstruct the original SYN from the encoded data our ISN plus one is in the ACK MSS, WSCALE, SACK encoded no other tcp option supported not of any relevance today shove that through pf_test() does ruleset evaluation creates state find that state and tweak it we'll never see the SYNACK, pretend we did 3WHS with the destination host existing synproxy code