ssh/scp filtering, iplen problem

Luigi Rizzo rizzo at icir.org
Sat Sep 20 12:14:33 PDT 2003


On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 08:42:21PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Pawel Malachowski <pawmal-posting at freebsd.lublin.pl> wrote:
>  > On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 05:10:24PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
>  > > According to ipfw(8), there is an "iplen" option for
>  > > filtering -- but it filters on an exact size.  What I
>  > > need is a way to specify a rule that matches on, say,
>  > > packets on port 22 that are larger than 1000 bytes.
>  > > Is that possible with IPFW2?
>  > 
>  > Yes, thanks to Luigi it is possible to use iplen ranges.
> 
> Thanks, now I found it in 4-stable in the CVS repo.
> Unfortunately I'm running 4.8-Release, which doesn't

the changes only involve sys/netinet/ip_fw2.[ch] sbin/ipfw/ipfw2.c
are completely backward compatible.

	cheers
	luigi

> have that feature.  Well, 4.9 isn't too far in the
> future, so I will just wait a little bit.  :-)
> 
> Thanks for the hint, Pawel!
> 
> Regards
>    Oliver
> 
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