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Date:      Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:24:49 +0100
From:      Achim Patzner <ap@bnc.net>
To:        "James R. Van Artsalen" <james@jrv.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.3 routing IPFW FWD'd packets?
Message-ID:  <7261A3E8-42C2-11D9-AC2A-000A95A0BB90@bnc.net>
In-Reply-To: <41AC571E.2020503@jrv.org>
References:  <41AC571E.2020503@jrv.org>

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> FreeBSD 5.3 may send IPFW FWD forwarded packets to a destination other 
> than the one specified in the FWD action.  FreeBSD 5.2.1 works as 
> expected.

I sent a PR on that one already... It cost me a few hundred local 
pearls for data routed in the wrong direction (--> no donations to the 
FreeBSD Foundation for the next few years).

> Packets sent to the directly reachable net 192.168.254/8 (rule 64000) 
> seem to work.  Is it possible that packets are somehow being routed 
> after being FWD'd by IPFW?

The counters show that the rule is applied, too. Just the "fwd" part is 
not happening.


Achim



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