From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 18 10: 9:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from iguana.icir.org (iguana.icir.org [192.150.187.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED7E637B41F for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:09:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rizzo@localhost) by iguana.icir.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g1II9Sx20417; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:09:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rizzo) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:09:28 -0800 From: Luigi Rizzo To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: "Michael R. Wayne" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd ipfw behaviour Message-ID: <20020218100928.D20152@iguana.icir.org> References: <200202152309.SAA00831@manor.msen.com> <20020216004721.B36782@blossom.cjclark.org> <20020218034112.D96593@staff.msen.com> <20020218054946.W48401@blossom.cjclark.org> <20020218120117.E96593@staff.msen.com> <20020218093113.H48401@blossom.cjclark.org> <20020218093852.B20152@iguana.icir.org> <20020218100458.K48401@blossom.cjclark.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020218100458.K48401@blossom.cjclark.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 10:04:58AM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > Do these patches help? > > > > can you please summarise the problem and what the fix is trying to > > achieve ? > > I don't really understand what the problem might be, and the issue is Precisely for this reason, what is that your patch is actually trying to fix/achieve ? Without a goal, how can even test that your code does what it supposed to do! cheers luigi > further confused since I am not sure where to trust the ipfw(8) 'fwd' > documentation and where not to. In -STABLE, it still says that only > outgoing packets are 'fwd'ed, but that's not what the submitter's logs > seem to indicate. The -CURRENT documentation does not make the > distinction. I vaguely recall this "recent" change, but have not found > anything all that recent in the commit logs. Back in the fall there > was that merge from -STABLE to -CURRENT, and I wonder if the change > was hidden in there. I have not been inspired enough to dig through > ip_{{in,out}put,fw}.c to see just what is really going on. But with > the ease I made that patch, I don't think there is as much divergence > on the 'fwd' issue between -CURRENT and -STABLE as the documentation > seems to imply. But I could easily be wrong. > -- > Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu > | cjclark@jhu.edu > http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message