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Date:      Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:42:43 -0800
From:      Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
To:        barbish@a1poweruser.com
Cc:        Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>, "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk>, freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Error in ipfw manpage for stateful rules?
Message-ID:  <3E399C53.3030406@tenebras.com>
In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGKEODDEAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>
References:  <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGKEODDEAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>

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JoeB wrote:

> ... Also this little quote from your
> email response "Also note:  it is documented but frequently
> forgotten that nat'd packets, or any packets passed via DIVERT, lose
> information -- such as which interface the packet was received on."
> Causes me a great amount of concern. I would think the divert code
> needs to be fixed to correct this problem

It's a feature, not a bug.  Since the process listening on the divert
socket can morph the packet into anything, there's simply no way of
knowing where it arrived.

>  Are you willing to give me a hand to correct this
> oversight to the IPFW documentation and examples.

The man page(s) need a rewrite, to be sure.  I think the examples
should be moved out of the man page and put in /usr/share/examples/ipfw...



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