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Date:      Tue, 9 Jun 1998 08:37:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Cc:        Tom Torrance <freebsd@tomqnx.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IPFW problem?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980609083607.26256B-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199806091249.FAA10960@hub.freebsd.org>

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IPFW relies on a separate module (libnat) to keep track of stateful
sessions.
you could add code to libnat to do what you want

julian


On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Darren Reed wrote:

> In some mail from Tom Torrance, sie said:
> > 
> > The sample file to the contrary, it appears that ipfw will not
> > allow the "established" keyword for the "allow icmp" case.
> > 
> > Is this a misunderstanding on my part or a genuine fault"?
> > 
> > Is there another way to allow ICMP only as part of the TCP protocol?
> 
> No.
> 
> Not even IP Filter does this (yet).  It does for NAT (that is ICMP
> headers packets are checked for relevance to an active NAT mapping)
> and is on my TODO list for "keep state" 'connections'  too.  You've
> got several problems here, if you want to do it for ipfw, the first
> being it has no concept of what "sessions" are currently in progress
> across/through the firewall (whereas IP Filter can).
> 
> Darren
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