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Date:      Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:41:26 -0700
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com>
To:        Danny.Carroll@mail.ing.nl
Cc:        ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Question about to/from matching.
Message-ID:  <20021009204126.GB64287@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <C6304883FB11E347AD4958D3F14EC00AB1DB12@ing.com>
References:  <C6304883FB11E347AD4958D3F14EC00AB1DB12@ing.com>

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On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:14:00PM +0200, Danny.Carroll@mail.ing.nl wrote:
> I have not got my copy of "Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol. x"  with me (someone borrowed it indefinatly) so forgive this rather basic question.
> 
> I have a rule, very early in my ruleset that says:
> 	deny log ip from any to 10.0.0.0/8 via xl0
> 
> but my gateway (and default route) is 10.0.0.100
> 
> Now, it's working the way I want it to...  In that it sends outside stuff to 10.0.0.100 and I can't telnet directly to the gateway.  But I am curious why this rule does not get inforced.

It does get enforced. You said you cannot telnet to 10.0.0.100.

> What does a TCP packet look like when it's being sent *to* a remote destination, but via a gateway.  Does the ip stack translate 10.0.0.100 to an ethernet address and pass it on that way?

Yes. The gateway's IP address doesn't appear in the IP packet. Have a
look at the packet. Use tcpdump(8) with '-X' and look diagram of the
data fields in an IP datagram.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org

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