keep-state rules inadequately handles big UDP ?packets?or?fragmented IP packets?

Dmitriy Demidov dima_bsd at inbox.lv
Thu Mar 19 12:29:07 PDT 2009


On Wednesday 18 March 2009, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> I'm just curious ...  Is it really worth the effort to add
> fragment reassembly to IPFW?  What advantage does it have?
>
> It would be much easier to simply pass all fragments with
> offset > 1, and drop all fragments with offset 0 that are
> smaller than a certain reasonable minimum length.  What
> would be the problem with this approach?
>
> Best regards
>    Oliver

Please wait... If I got it right (and dont missing something) then this rule:
ipfw add allow ip from any to me frag
have dissadvantage - I'm unabled to filter data by UDP/TCP ports. All IP 
packets is just passing through firewall to me. No UDP/TCP filtering here?


More information about the freebsd-ipfw mailing list