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Date:      Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:48:44 -0800 (PST)
From:      Mikko Tyolajarvi <mikko@dynas.se>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ppp packet filtering
Message-ID:  <200101311948.f0VJmit58837@explorer.rsa.com>
References:  <200101311936.f0VJa0s58753@explorer.rsa.com>

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In local.freebsd.questions I write:

>In local.freebsd.questions you write:

>>Greetings,
>>I use userland ppp with the -auto and -nat flags.  This is a 
>>good combo for me.  I want to do some packet filtering for
>>security reasons, and wondered if the packet filtering that
>>you can do with rules in the ppp.conf is good ?  The 

>It goes a long way if you just want to block unwanted traffic and do
>NAT.  The only thing I can think of that I miss is the ability to
>filter ICMP packet types.

Following up to myself: just had a look at the source code, and it
looks like ICMP types can be matched using the, perhaps slightly
bogus, syntax "icmp src eq TYPE".

       $.02,
       /Mikko
-- 
 Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com
 RSA Security


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