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Date:      Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:40:31 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To:        oogali@intranova.net (Omachonu Ogali)
Cc:        andre@arkaine.com (Andre Chang), sh@eclipse.net.uk ('Stuart Henderson'), briang@expnet.net (Brian Gallucci), isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New Firewall
Message-ID:  <200001201740.JAA54999@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001200646350.4166-100000@hydrant.intranova.net> from Omachonu Ogali at "Jan 20, 2000 06:50:18 am"

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> I'm not sure what he meant by ICMP fragmentation-needed messages, but
> yes, ICMP is needed for reliable communication and faster communication
> (primarily unreachables), so you can allow ICMP to pass through but I
> wouldn't recommend it after seeing 24Mbps smurfs come through...
> 
> And in your case Andre, ICMP fragmentation has nothing to do with your
> sendmail problem, that shows that your connection is breaking/dropping
> after a while, maybe the remote side is closing the connection
> prematurely...check it out by telnetting to the remote host on port 25 and
> imitate a regular SMTP transaction to find the problem...

If Andre is filtering ICMP 3.4 (ICMP_UNREACH.ICMP_UNREACH_NEEDFRAG) it
certainly could have to do with his sendmail problem.


-- 
Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25)               rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net


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