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Date:      Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:25:23 +0530
From:      Girish Venkatachalam <girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Erik Osterholm <freebsd-lists-erik@erikosterholm.org>
Subject:   Re: PF, bridge, states and window scaling problem
Message-ID:  <20071113135523.GA13178@saraswathy.susmita.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071113132734.GA16728@saraswathy.susmita.org>
References:  <669132de0711121208n32bfb827p4984c6d3383da713@mail.gmail.com> <20071113022053.GA17768@saraswathy.susmita.org> <20071113054220.GA74564@aleph.cepheid.org> <20071113132734.GA16728@saraswathy.susmita.org>

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On 18:57:34 Nov 13, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
> I just read the post you linked. Thanks. :)

I read the post once again and it looks as though I understood what is
mentioned there.

The 'no-df' in scrub rule clears the Don't fragment bit in the IP
header. When a host wrongly sends fragmented packets with the DF bit
set, this scrub rule "correctly" resets the DF bit.

Now since the host made the mistake of sending a fragmented packet with
DF bit set ( this is like saying " Please don't fragment my packet, but
I myself have fragmented". Odd...) no-df scrub rule causes trouble.

Scrub never causes trouble with properly formed packets.

regards,
Girish




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