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Date:      Sat, 27 Nov 2004 16:07:07 +0200
From:      Andrew Degtiariov <ad@astral-on.net>
To:        Daniel Hartmeier <daniel@benzedrine.cx>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rsh is malfunctioning due to pf
Message-ID:  <20041127140707.GA20356@astral-on.net>
In-Reply-To: <20041127120149.GE23786@insomnia.benzedrine.cx>
References:  <20041126203354.GB81834@astral-on.net> <20041127120149.GE23786@insomnia.benzedrine.cx>

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On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 01:01:49PM +0100, Daniel Hartmeier wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:33:54PM +0200, Andrew Degtiariov wrote:
> 
> > I have ipcad installed on 2 PC's running 5.3-RELEASE and 5-STABLE from
> > Nov 21. ipcad (ports/net-mgmt/ipcad) provides ability to control them
> > by rsh (ipcad implement rsh server by yourself). While using pf with
> > primitive rulesets rsh stops its working. It seems like pf drop short
> > packets.
> 
> The 'short' reason is a little overloaded, it can have two meanings.
> The less likely case is where the mbuf didn't contain a complete IP
> header. More likely, the packet contains IP options, which pf blocks by
> default. You can isolate the problem by
> 
>   a) enabling debug logging with pfctl -xm and watching the console
>      or /var/log/messages for messages from 'pf: '
>   b) dumping an entire packet that is being blocked, with
>      tcpdump -s 1600 -nvvvetttSXi pflog0
>   c) adding 'allow-opts' to all your pass rules and see if the problem
>      goes away
Yes, allow-opts restored ipcad functionality. Probality need to add
warning to pf documentation about this behavior, b/c enabling pf broke
multicast (ospf for me) with out rules with allow-opts. I was see note about 
it exists only in pf.conf (in allow-opts description) and leave out it 
unnoticed while read this manual page.

-- 
Andrew Degtiariov 
DA-RIPE



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