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Date:      Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:42:09 -0800
From:      Jason DiCioccio <geniusj@bluenugget.net>
To:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu
Cc:        Michael Scheidell <scheidell@fdma.com>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: can I use keep-state for icmp rules?
Message-ID:  <20011031144209.A89351@bluenugget.net>
In-Reply-To: <20011031130817.A246@gohan.cjclark.org>
References:  <009c01c16017$dca045d0$0603a8c0@MIKELT> <20011029153954.B224@gohan.cjclark.org> <005501c1613f$dfb46520$0603a8c0@MIKELT> <20011030164253.C223@gohan.cjclark.org> <000901c1620f$51428530$2801010a@MIKELT> <20011031130817.A246@gohan.cjclark.org>

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On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:08:17PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote:
[snip]
> Not sure if checking more "carefully" is an accurate statement, but
> IPFilter does only allow TCP packets that it "expects" back in. It
> does track sequence numbers which ipfw(8) does not track at all.
[snip]

Now I'm curious.  Will using "flags S" after keep state rules in ipfilter
degrade the quality of ipf's stateful inspection?  I know it is recommended=
 (at
least on the ipfilter webpage) to use flags S for tcp keep state rules if y=
our
state table is filling up, if not in all cases.  I'm just curious to know
whether using that 'flags S' will make the inspection work more like ipfw's.
If so, I might have to reconsider my use of it. :-)

Thanks,
-JD-

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