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Date:      Sat, 5 Jan 2002 12:26:11 +0100
From:      Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        William Carrel <william.carrel@infospace.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: path_mtu_discovery
Message-ID:  <20020105112611.GA70493@gvr.gvr.org>
In-Reply-To: <3C3636B1.4D5F42A4@mindspring.com>
References:  <26E71536-013D-11D6-8ED3-003065D5E9A4@infospace.com> <3C36149B.B9C02DCF@mindspring.com> <20020104223235.GA64301@gvr.gvr.org> <3C3636B1.4D5F42A4@mindspring.com>

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On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 03:11:45PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> I knew that I could multiply the number of packets sent by a
> factor of 5... I was pointing out a flaw in the idea of allowing
> path MTU ICMP back in, unconditionally...

Thre is nothing 'unconditionally' in ipfilter. The IP packetheader and
the first 8 bytes of the UDP/ICMP/TCP header are examined and checked
if they match a valid state entry.

-Guido

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