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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 1996 03:13:52 +1100 (EST)
From:      michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
To:        phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: -stable hangs at boot (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199602261613.DAA14868@asstdc.scgt.oz.au>
In-Reply-To: <11445.825342415@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Feb 26, 96 02:46:55 pm

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Poul-Henning Kamp writes:

> Well, this happens to be your view.  I know machines where IPFW are being
> used to restrict what users on the machine can do, this is only possible
> if you filter >ALL< traffic, to and from the machine.

I haven't checked this but .. what happens to a packet which matches a
"reject" rule when it's not actually destined for the machine doing the
filtering .. does it still generate an ICMP "host unreachable" ?

This can happen, for example, with multiple subnets on one wire ..

If so .. we have our incarnation of the M$ "sniper bug" that plagued WFW and
WinNT boxes and which arbitrarilt shot down packets which were not theirs to
kill :-(

	michael



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