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Date:      Thu, 29 May 2014 15:32:40 +0200
From:      Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, bycn82 <bycn82@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: propose a new generic purpose rule option for ipfw
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On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> wrote:

> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 08:45:26PM +0800, bycn82 wrote:
> ...
> >
> > Sure, that is the reason why developers are providing more and more rule
> options. But the my question is do we have enough options to match all the
> fixed position values?
>
> we do not have an option for fixed position matching.
>
> As i said, feel free to submit one and i will be happy to
> import it if the code is clean (btw i am still waiting
> for fixes to the other 'rate limiting' option you sent),
> but keep in mind that 'fixed position' is mostly useless.
>
> More useful options would be one where you express the position as
>
>         '{MAC|VLAN|IP|UDP|TCP|...|PAYLOAD}+offset'
>
> so at least you can adapt to variant headers, or one where you can look
> for a pattern in the entire packet or in a portion of it.
>
> cheers
> luigi
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Wouldn't PAYLOAD require possibly reassembly of a fragmented packet?

It certainly is a good feature, don't get me wrong. But what are the
performance hits?

Best regards
Andreas



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