From owner-freebsd-ipfw Thu Jan 30 13:42:48 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F22A537B401 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:42:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.tenebras.com (laptop.tenebras.com [66.92.188.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5241543F3F for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:42:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kudzu@tenebras.com) Received: (qmail 1741 invoked from network); 30 Jan 2003 21:42:46 -0000 Received: from sapphire.tenebras.com (HELO tenebras.com) (192.168.188.241) by 0 with SMTP; 30 Jan 2003 21:42:46 -0000 Message-ID: <3E399C53.3030406@tenebras.com> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:42:43 -0800 From: Michael Sierchio User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr-fr, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: barbish@a1poweruser.com Cc: Nick Rogness , "Simon L. Nielsen" , freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Error in ipfw manpage for stateful rules? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG JoeB wrote: > ... Also this little quote from your > email response "Also note: it is documented but frequently > forgotten that nat'd packets, or any packets passed via DIVERT, lose > information -- such as which interface the packet was received on." > Causes me a great amount of concern. I would think the divert code > needs to be fixed to correct this problem It's a feature, not a bug. Since the process listening on the divert socket can morph the packet into anything, there's simply no way of knowing where it arrived. > Are you willing to give me a hand to correct this > oversight to the IPFW documentation and examples. The man page(s) need a rewrite, to be sure. I think the examples should be moved out of the man page and put in /usr/share/examples/ipfw... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message