Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 02:35:52 +0100 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dropping 127.* on the floor (was Re: 4.5 & ipnat breakage) Message-ID: <3C5DE578.4020409@gmx.net> References: <20020203152433.A5932-100000@voyager.straynet.com>
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Greg Prosser wrote: > FWIW, my problem was a change in the ip stack. > > We now drop 127.* packets on the floor if they come in across an interface > that is not lo0. Since ipnat redirect rules happen below the ip stack, > packets which are rewritten by ipnat to use a 127.* address get dropped on > the floor when they enter the stack. ipnat records the redirect as having > worked, but the packet just disappears silently. This totally breaks > my transparent proxy, as I forward the connections to 127.0.0.1 via ipnat. Ugh. This probably means that transparent squid proxying will also break and _that_ scares me (no touchy cvsup for my -STABLE box). You might want to contact the committer about this. -- Michael Nottebrock To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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