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Date:      Wed, 14 Mar 2001 23:43:17 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To:        Udo Erdelhoff <ue@nathan.ruhr.de>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ipfw rule -1?
Message-ID:  <20010314234317.F496@cjc-desktop.users.reflexcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010314220613.L83336@nathan.ruhr.de>; from ue@nathan.ruhr.de on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:06:14PM %2B0100
References:  <20010313084020.A5859@agora.rdrop.com> <20010313232014.B496@cjc-desktop.users.reflexcom.com> <20010314220613.L83336@nathan.ruhr.de>

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On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:06:14PM +0100, Udo Erdelhoff wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:20:14PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> > Rule -1 is given for any packet dropped, but not dropped due to a user
> > rule or the default rule. A quick look at the souce indicates the
> > above pseudo-rule and some other fragment issues (bogusfrag) are the
> > only such situations. 
> 
> Hmm, I have the following setup: A -current box mounts /usr/src5 and
> /usr/obj5 via NFS from a RELENG_4 box. Doing "make installworld" fails
> as soon there's a fragmented NFS packet - the fragments are dropped
> by rule -1.

The only time UDP packets would be dropped is when a m_pullup() call
fails. I am not sure what that implies, but it does not sound good.
I don't think that should be failing.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu

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