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Date:      Fri, 12 Oct 2001 18:47:41 -0700
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        Henrik Holmstam <turbo@lamering.org>
Cc:        Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>, Alfatrion <alfatrion@cybertron.tmfweb.nl>, "Maine LOA List Admin (Brent Bailey)" <brentb@loa.com>, "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IPFW or IPFILTER?
Message-ID:  <20011012184741.D6274@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011012185458.K69352-100000@darkwing.turbo.net>; from turbo@lamering.org on Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 06:56:48PM %2B0200
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0110121216390.27495-100000@sun10pg2.wam.umd.edu> <20011012185458.K69352-100000@darkwing.turbo.net>

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On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 06:56:48PM +0200, Henrik Holmstam wrote:
> 
> Can IPFW keep state on UDP and ICMP as IPFilter can?

Yes and kinda.

"Keeping state" on UDP (a stateless protocol, BTW) is pretty easy. You
see a packet,

  <src_ip>:<src_port> -> <dst_ip>:<dst_port>

So you then allow,

  <dst_ip>:<dst_port> -> <src_ip>:<src_port>

To go through for a while. ipfw(8) dynamic rules will handle this just
fine.

ICMP is another issue. Doing something like,

  pass icmp from any to any out via <external_if> keep-state

Will let you ping the rest of the word and even let Windows-style
traceroutes work, but that's because it works like this:

  <src_ip>:<src_icmp_type.src_icmp_code> -> <dst_ip>

Creates a dynamic rule,

  pass icmp from <dst_ip> to <src_ip>

That is, _any_ ICMP from <dst_ip> to <src_ip> is passed for the
dynamic's rule lifetime.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org

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