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Date:      Fri, 23 Jul 2004 00:55:56 +0200
From:      Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
To:        pf4freebsd@freelists.org
Cc:        othermark <atkin901@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: fixing out of order first fragment processing?
Message-ID:  <200407230055.57014.max@love2party.net>
In-Reply-To: <cdpf9q$o0t$1@sea.gmane.org>
References:  <cdpbts$om0$1@sea.gmane.org> <200407222359.23147.max@love2party.net> <cdpf9q$o0t$1@sea.gmane.org>

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On Friday 23 July 2004 00:32, othermark wrote:
> Max Laier wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 July 2004 23:34, othermark wrote:
> > Activation of pf with a
> > scrub in on <interface> fragment reassemble
> > rule works as workaround.
>
> Thanks for this suggestion,
>
> I have a 'scrub in all fragments reassemble' that I just added and loaded
> to my /etc/pf.conf, which does not seem to solve the problem.  Do I have =
to
> specify a scrub for each interface in this case (maybe a better question
> for the pf list)?

Moved. It actually should. Can you please try to # pfctl -x misc and check =
the=20
console? I might well have something wrong, need to cross check.

> > In every case you have to decide if you want to
> > invest the required memory to store fragments, which might make you
> > easy/easier prey for DoS-attacks. Usually, for an average gateway the
> > cost is worth the gain (=3D increased security).
>
> Most of the current systems today are able to handle both types of
> sequences.   It really is a small processing hit, FreeBSD already does
> some bufferring with proper safeguards/maximums for various
> traffic patterns.
>
> I would suspect some NFS/udp interoperability problems with the way it
> handles fragments right now.
>
> --
> othermark
> atkin901 at nospam dot yahoo dot com
> (!wired)?(coffee++):(wired);
>
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