Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 10:17:04 -0800 (PST) From: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipfw logs ports for fragments Message-ID: <199802091817.KAA18235@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>
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Mark Slemko <marcs@znep.com> writes: > Reassembly sucks. If you have different parts of the fragment > following different paths, you lose bigtime. This is excessively general. In particular, in any firewall setting (and we were talking about ipfw), it can be considered a misfeature for the network to be designed such that data either transits or bypasses the firewall, unpredictably. Obviously IP routers should not in general perform packet reassembly; firewalls, NAT devices, etc., placed at administrative boundaries toward the perimeter of the network, are a different story. Jim Shankland Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message
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