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Date:      Thu, 8 Nov 2001 16:40:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
Cc:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fixing ipfw(8)'s 'tee'
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111081639370.76499-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <200111082338.fA8NcBK41060@arch20m.dellroad.org>

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Got Margaret's invitation to dinner.
I'm not sure if Dalma has responded yet, but we'd be delighted..
have to let Dalma look in her diary though..


On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Archie Cobbs wrote:

> Crist J. Clark writes:
> > The issue may be that you wish to make a decision on the packet in
> > later rules. For example, someone might wish to 'tee' all traffic to
> > and from a certain machine to some unspecified traffic monitoring
> > program listening on the divert socket. However, all of the traffic
> > too and from that IP address may or may not be allowed by the security
> > policy. With 'tee' as it exists, one cannot catch _all_ of the traffic
> > (whether or not allowed by policy) and still apply policy.
> 
> Yes, this is how 'tee' should work. It was really hard to do at the
> time for some reason that I can't recall... I think because the
> interface between ip_input.c and ip_fw.c doesn't handle one packet
> splitting into two packets like that.. but maybe things have
> gotten better since then.
> 
> -Archie
> 
> __________________________________________________________________________
> Archie Cobbs     *     Packet Design     *     http://www.packetdesign.com
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