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Date:      Thu, 30 Jan 1997 17:57:59 +0100
From:      Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com>
To:        znek@object-factory.com (Marcus Mueller)
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ipfw trouble under FreeBSD 2.1.5 
Message-ID:  <199701301657.RAA23236@internal-mail.systemics.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "30 Jan 1997 15:49:50 GMT." <5cqfuu$sqt@leonie.object-factory.com> 

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> Hi,
> 
> it seems that ipfw under FreeBSD 2.1.5 has a bug which leads to deny-rules 
> being applied to connections which should have been accepted before.
> (That means a 65000 deny blah from blah to blah matches a connection which 
> should have been accepted by a 10000 allow blah from blah to blah).
> In certain cases - though not deterministically - I have to flush the list 
> and then setup all rules again for the firewall to function properly.
> In some cases this does not help, however.
> 
> Is this problem known and solved under FreeBSD 2.1.6?


Are you certain?  Are you catering for fragmented packets?  In other words,
do you have a rule like this:

	# Allow all fragments
	/sbin/ipfw add pass ip from any to any frag


BTW - my security skills are currently for hire, preferably in Europe :-)

Gary






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