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Date:      Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:20:40 -0500
From:      David Duchscher <daved@tamu.edu>
To:        Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org>
Cc:        net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pf + scrub fragment reassemble + if_bridge = bad?
Message-ID:  <E81A4F7B-4E5B-409D-A49B-805F20F3DB01@tamu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20070407205139.GD64415@heff.fud.org.nz>
References:  <DD6B106A-C1CD-4A72-8F56-EDD9AE90AE38@tamu.edu> <20070407205139.GD64415@heff.fud.org.nz>

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On Apr 7, 2007, at 3:51 PM, Andrew Thompson wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 03:01:09PM -0500, David Duchscher wrote:
>> Ran into a problem the other day and wanted to drop a note and see
>> if I should followup with a PR.  Running a box as a bridging firewall
>> and ran into problem with giant packets being reported by the router
>> on one end and OSPF routing dropping.  Seems that once a packet is
>> reassembled by pf, it gets forward on through the bridge and out
>> onto the wire.  In this case, it was an OSPF packet that ended up
>> being 1540 bytes long .  Of course, turning off the scrub rules fix
>> the problem but I was wondering if this is expected behavior, a
>> bug, or has already been fix.
>>
>> The box is running 6.1-RELEASE i386.  Network interfaces are em
>> gigabit interfaces with MTU at 1500.
>
> You are quite right and this has been fixed from 6.2. You will either
> need to upgrade to that or manually apply r1.11.2.31

Sweet and thanks.  I swear I looked for a fix had already been committed
but obviously I missed it.

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DaveD


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