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Date:      Sat, 11 May 2002 13:46:33 -0700
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        rick norman <rick.norman@lmco.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ipfw and aliases
Message-ID:  <20020511134633.A2824@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <3CDB2CED.DCC3092F@lmco.com>; from rick.norman@lmco.com on Thu, May 09, 2002 at 07:14:06PM -0700
References:  <3CDB2CED.DCC3092F@lmco.com>

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On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 07:14:06PM -0700, rick norman wrote:
> Is it possible to write a firewall rule for a router with one interface
> with multiple aliased ip
> addresses that will grab pkts based on the IP_alias they are routed in
> or out on, rather than the src or des address of the pkt.

No, there is no way to do this. The information is simply not
available to the system. There is no way for it to know what IP
address a remote machine might have used to pick its link-layer
address for forwarding the packet.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org

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