My planned work on networking stack

James haesu at towardex.com
Sat Mar 6 13:05:44 PST 2004


thank you! :) 

i'll try this sometime next week and let you know of any feedbacks i have.

-J

> 
> Here you go:
> 
>  http://www.nrg4u.com/freebsd/ipfw_versrcreach.diff
> 
> This one implements the standard functionality, the definition of an
> interface through which it has to be reachable is not (yet) supported.
> 
> Using this option only makes sense when you don't have a default route
> which naturally always matches.  So this is useful for machines acting
> as routers with a default-free view of the entire Internet as common
> when running a BGP daemon (Zebra/Quagga or OpenBSD bgpd).
> 
> One useful way of enabling it globally on a router looks like this:
> 
>  ipfw add xxxx deny ip from any to any not versrcreach
> 
> or for an individual interface only:
> 
>  ipfw add xxxx deny ip from any to any not versrcreach recv fxp0
> 
> I'd like to get some feedback (and a man page draft) before I commit it
> to -CURRENT.
> 
> -- 
> Andre

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