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Date:      Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:47:28 -0700
From:      Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "established" on { tcp or udp } rules
Message-ID:  <200803191347.28329.fjwcash@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200803191343.45516.fjwcash@gmail.com>
References:  <200803191334.54510.fjwcash@gmail.com> <200803191343.45516.fjwcash@gmail.com>

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On March 19, 2008 01:43 pm Freddie Cash wrote:
> On March 19, 2008 01:34 pm Freddie Cash wrote:
> > Just curious if the following rule will work correctly.  It is
> > accepted by the ipfw command.  In the process of working out a test
> > for it, but thought I'd ask here as well, just to be sure.
> >
> > ipfw add { tcp or udp } from me     to any 53 out xmit fxp0
> > ipfw add { tcp or udp } from any 53 to me     in  recv fxp0
> > established
> >
> > Will the UDP packets go through correctly, even though "established"
> > has no meaning for UDP streams, and the ipfw command will barf if you
> > use it with just "ipfw add udp" rules?
>
> Hmm, from the looks of things, it doesn't work.  Even though it
> specifies both tcp and udp, the rule only matches tcp packets from an
> established connection.
>
> Perhaps a warning or error should be given when you try to use TCP
> options on rules that aren't TCP-specific?
>
> Or am I missing something here?

Guess I should probably have included a test case.  From "ipfw show" 
output:
00100  3 162 allow { tcp or udp } from me to any dst-port 53 out xmit fxp0

00110  0   0 allow { tcp or udp } from any 53 to me in recv fxp0 
established

00120  3 409 allow { tcp or udp } from any 53 to me in recv fxp0


Without a "deny ip from any to any" rule instead of the last rule, UDP DNS 
requests fail.

-- 
Freddie Cash
fjwcash@gmail.com



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