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Date:      Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:10:02 GMT
From:      Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org>
To:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/106438: ipfilter: keep state does not seem to allow replies in on spar64 (and maybe others)
Message-ID:  <200712142110.lBELA2ML042551@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/106438; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org>
To: Manuel Tobias Schiller <mala@hinterbergen.de>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/106438: ipfilter: keep state does not seem to allow replies
 in on spar64 (and maybe others)
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:01:11 +0100

 Manuel Tobias Schiller wrote:
 > On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:03:31 +0100
 > Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org> wrote:
 > 
 >> Manuel Tobias Schiller wrote:
 >>> Hello,
 >>>
 >>> I've gathered the information you have asked for, see the
 >>> attachment. I hope it helps us to get an idea of what's going
 >>> wrong. Any help with this would be appreciated.
 >>>
 >>> Thanks in advance.
 >>>
 >>> Manuel
 >>>
 >>> P.S. I did the | grep hme3 in the attachment to not clutter the
 >>> output with irrelevant stuff. All other rules are bound to their
 >>> respective interface (hme0, hme1, hme2, le0) and should not
 >>> influence hme3. Besides, there's a lot of traffic going on on le0
 >>> which does not need to be mentioned in the ipfstat output because
 >>> the machine in question is headless and can only be reached with a
 >>> serial line (with a laptop down in the cellar) or a dedicated
 >>> network interface (le0, for which I need to have rules that pass
 >>> everything).
 >>>
 >>> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 10:16:19AM +0100, Remko Lodder wrote:
 >>>> Hello,
 >>>>
 >>>>
 >>>> 	First of all thanks for using FreeBSD!
 >>>>
 >>>> 	If you run ipmon, what kind of details do you see in the
 >>>> log? It mentions where it is blocked and you can review that rule
 >>>> with ipfstat -hion (list everything in out, do not resolve and
 >>>> show the amount of hits on the rule)
 >>>>
 >>>> 	Thanks in advance
 >>>>
 >>>> -- 
 >>>> Kind regards,
 >>>>
 >>>>      Remko Lodder               ** remko@elvandar.org
 >>>>      FreeBSD                    ** remko@FreeBSD.org
 >>>>
 >>>>      /* Quis custodiet ipsos custodes */
 >>>>
 >> Dear Manuel,
 >>
 >> It took a lot of time for me to set this up properly, but I managed to
 >> work this out; actually this is not a ipfilter problem but it seems
 >> that hme0 is not capable of doing incoming and outgoing checksumming.
 >>
 >> I faced the same problem, and by issueing a ifconfig hme0 -txcsum
 >> -rxcsum I resolved the problem.
 >>
 >> The ipfilter errors vanished after that. I'll try to have a look at
 >> the intel gigabit card in the machine (manually added) and see
 >> whether that has a similiar issue..
 >>
 >> Cheers
 >> remko
 > 
 > Dear Remko,
 > 
 > it's great to hear from you again - I thought everybody had forgotten
 > about this... Well, I have switched to pf in the meantime, as it's a
 > production machine, but I may have time over christmas to test things
 > out with ipfilter, as I like it very much. By the way, why did things
 > work with hme and ipfilter in earlier FreeBSD versions? Did hme not have
 > the checksumming feature at all or different defaults? This puzzles me a
 > little, I must confess.
 > 
 > Anyway, thanks a lot for your help!
 > 
 > Cheers,
 > 
 > Manuel
 > 
 
 Hello Manuel,
 
 Yes my fault, I reproduced this today with pf enabled, hme just works
 fine with that, so I was wrong :-)
 
 it's ipfilter that is messing up here...
 
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