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Date:      Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:04:28 +0530
From:      Girish Venkatachalam <girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and pf
Message-ID:  <20080319083428.GE28928@saraswathy.madambakam.org>
In-Reply-To: <1205909808.7011.9.camel@norman-laptop>
References:  <1205909808.7011.9.camel@norman-laptop>

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On 07:56:48 Mar 19, Norman Maurer wrote:
> Hi all,
>=20
> im using freebsd 7.0  + gif interfaces + racoon + pf to filter stuff on
> my box. After upgrading to freebsd 7.0 I see some strange behavior. I
> see packets get dropped because of bad hdr length. The problems only
> seems to happen on traffic between the local nets and nets routed via
> ipsec. Here is a tcpdump snipped:
>=20
> block in on em5: 192.168.175.4.1107 > 192.168.116.6.22:  tcp 544 [bad
> hdr length 12 - too short, < 20]
>=20
> gif interface:
> gif5: flags=3D8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1402
>         tunnel inet 213.157.17.67 --> 213.23.198.131
>         inet 192.168.116.1 --> 192.168.175.1 netmask 0xffffff00=20
>=20
>=20
> Any help is welcome.

A TCP header can never be less than 20 bytes.

And 12 is odd since all headers are a multiple of 4 bytes (word
boundary).

Check your MTU of the PPPoE/PPPoA/Ethernet/WiFi or whatever datalink
layer. I bet there is a problem there.

Best,
Girish

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