GRE and PF problem

Stephen J. Bevan stephen at dino.dnsalias.com
Fri Jul 15 06:01:35 GMT 2005


Giovanni P. Tirloni writes:
 >   I don't know how PF keeps tracks of ICMP packets but there must be a 
 > way for it to distinguish between a packet destined to 192.168.0.1 or 0.2.

An ICMP ECHO REQUEST message has a 16-bit id field which can be
altered by NAT to identify the originating machine.

There isn't really an equivalent when using a minimal GRE header.  If
GRE checksums are turned on then the 16-bit Reserved1 field could be
abused for NAT purposes.


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