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Date:      Mon, 04 Feb 2002 23:57:02 -0000
From:      Matthew Whelan <muttley@gotadsl.co.uk>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.cc>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: dropping 127.* on the floor
Message-ID:  <KZWJE3VPJ5651WYXA7E0IH3ZLFOLI.3c5f1fce@VicNBob>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020204092437.050e66e0@marble.sentex.ca>

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04/02/2002 14:29:08, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> wrote:

>What if this were dealt as part of firewall rules ?  i.e. GENERIC was built 
>by default with IPFIREWALL and firewall_enable="YES" and 
>firewall_type="OPEN" were set. That way the behavior that people have come 
>to rely on is still there for those that need it.

Well, some way of forcing a strong endpoint model would definitely be nice. 
Aren't the problems with trying to do it in ipfw/ipf effectively the same as 
with ip_output.c though (namely that the destination address has been re-
written before inspection)?

Matthew



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