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Date:      Tue, 25 Jan 2000 07:59:56 -0500
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: rule -1 on ipfw
Message-ID:  <4.2.2.20000125075638.00aa1810@mail.sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000125100812.A32413@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>
References:  <3.0.5.32.20000124131838.01ce4e10@staff.sentex.ca> <3.0.5.32.20000124131838.01ce4e10@staff.sentex.ca>

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At 10:08 AM 1/25/2000 +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>This is documented in the ipfw(8) manpage:
>
>: There is one kind of packet that the firewall will always discard, that
>: is an IP fragment with a fragment offset of one.  This is a valid packet,
>: but it only has one use, to try to circumvent firewalls.

Ahh, thanks!  I did check the man page, but didn't connect the above to 
showing up as -1.

         ---Mike



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