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Date:      Wed, 27 Jul 2016 03:05:35 +0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
To:        Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>, "freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ipfw divert filter for IPv4 geo-blocking
Message-ID:  <59d70c14-1524-8279-7b91-1620e2f688a7@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAHu1Y72JZzXTp_YGsFe31j79vi0TNBQCm%2BoPze=3QB6zf8G08g@mail.gmail.com>
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On 27/07/2016 1:40 AM, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 9:26 AM, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>      table 1 { DE, NL } -> 10000,
>>>                  { US, UK } -> 10100
>>>      table 2 { CN, KO, TR } -> 20000
>>>
>> why multiple tables?
>> if you load the table at once you can assign a country code as the
>> tablearg for every run of addresses. all in one table.
>
> I mentioned that in my earlier response - but if the point is to block
> entire countries (or any collection of CIDR blocks, for that matter), it's
> sufficient to have a whitelist table and a blacklist table. The table arg
> could also be a skipto rule number, right? And you can do policy-based
> routing, with the table arg as a FIB number.
>
> Passing the packet to userland via divert sockets was a brilliant idea in
> 2003. natd was pretty much the first NAT mechanism to properly handle ICMP
> error responses, too.
2003?  nahh we wrote it and divert in 96 :-)

>




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