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Date:      Tue, 25 Sep 2001 19:40:10 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        fj@batmule.dk, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: misc/30255: [PATCH] Packets reinjected by natd but denied by ipfw generates annoying errors 
Message-ID:  <32094.1001439610@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Sep 2001 20:29:33 %2B0300." <20010925202933.A57333@sunbay.com> 

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In message <20010925202933.A57333@sunbay.com>, Ruslan Ermilov writes:
>On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 07:14:48PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> 
>> >State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
>> >State-Changed-By: ru
>> >State-Changed-When: Tue Sep 25 07:24:17 PDT 2001
>> >State-Changed-Why: 
>> 
>> >With my MAINTAINER hat on, I don't like this option.
>> >
>> >This error usually indicates a misconfigured firewall.
>> >It is almost always possible to write firewall rules
>> >that do not result in EACCES from firewall.
>> 
>> I think you're being too harsh here Ruslan.  While it may theoretically
>> be possible to write such rules, I have myself often found it simpler
>> and faster to reject on the "backside" of natd.
>> 
>Just give me one real example where it's really useful, and I'll probably
>agree.
>
>> Considering what is proposed is an option I think it should be committed.
>> 
>OK, how about this instead?
>
>I can change the code so that it logs various warnings at
>different syslog(3) levels.  Then what gets logged may be
>controlled via syslog.conf(5).

I think that is always a good idea, but this particular switch
makes more sense as a direct option I think...


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