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Date:      Sat, 20 Feb 2021 15:02:11 -0800
From:      Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
To:        "net@freebsd.org" <net@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: IPv6 Fragmentation
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> On 20 February 2021, at 04:13, Kristof Provost <kp@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
> If you don=E2=80=99t have scrub fragment reassemble set then you have =
to include something like pass log inet6 proto ipv6-frag all to pass =
fragmented packets (assuming you block by default).
>=20
> You really, really want scrub fragment reassemble because otherwise =
your firewall can be trivially bypassed, but you need one of the two for =
fragmented packets to work.
>=20

I went with reassembly as it was easy to configure.  However, is there =
some place where the trivial bypassing is addressed in detail?  I would =
like to understand that.

-- Doug




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