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Date:      Fri, 10 Jun 2005 10:28:54 -0500
From:      Chris Haulmark <chris@sigd.net>
To:        STST <deepcracksg@yahoo.com.sg>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dropped fragment GRE
Message-ID:  <1118417334.36978.8.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <010501c56d8d$7168b130$36764b0a@hq.ida.gov.sg>
References:  <010501c56d8d$7168b130$36764b0a@hq.ida.gov.sg>

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On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 15:24 +0800, STST wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am currently running ipfw from FreeBSD-5.3-RELEASE on my box. The
> box passes GRE packets from the external to the internal network. We
> run Microsoft RDP over PPTP through the firewall. After upgrading to
> FreeBSD 5.3, we realised that the RDP connections never get initiated.
>  When I did a tcpdump on the internal and external interfaces of the
> FW, I realised that there were fragmented GRE packets arriving at the
> FW, but however, these packets do not leave the FW. I also observed
> the SEQ no. in the GRE packets ingress/egress, and there were missing
> GRE packets on the egress.
> 
> My deduction was that ipfw was dropping these fragmented GRE packets,
> but however, these events were shown on syslog. How do I make ipfw log
> dropped/silently rejected packets? How to I prevent ipfw from dropping
> these packets?

GRE would need a rule.

ipfw add allow gre from any to any

To turn off your logging abilities, don't use log or logmount in your rule bodies.

Chris Haulmark

> 
> Appreciate all help given,
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> J.W.
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