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Date:      Sun, 10 Jun 2001 23:33:48 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        moncrg@ma.ultranet.com
Cc:        FreeBSD Net <FreeBSD-net@FreeBSD.ORG>, brian@Awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: how to filter out igmp spam on a ppp -nat dialup? 
Message-ID:  <200106102233.f5AMXmR02476@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Gregory D. Moncreaff" <moncrg@ma.ultranet.com>  of "Sun, 10 Jun 2001 14:58:51 CDT." <3B23D17B.2F2F540@ma.ultranet.com> 

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> this traffic is holding my ppp connection open
> for hours at a time, is there any way to filter 
> this out
> 
> I tried adding `set filter in  0 deny igmp`
> to my ppp.conf config but then I couldn't do external
> DNS.

Try

  set filter alive 0 deny igmp
  set filter alive 1 permit 0 0

Maybe the DNS problem was caused by not having a final permit rule 
(falling off the end of the filter set is the same as a deny).

[.....]
> -- 
> Greg Moncreaff
> moncrg@ma.ultranet.com
> Marlborough, MA;
> USA

-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;                   <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !



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