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Date:      Fri, 21 Jan 2000 09:43:34 -0700 (MST)
From:      David G Andersen <danderse@cs.utah.edu>
To:        brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass)
Cc:        rbezuide@oskar.dev.nanoteq.co.za (Reinier Bezuidenhout), robinson@netrinsics.com (Michael Robinson), freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: stream.c workaround clarification
Message-ID:  <200001211643.JAA02231@faith.cs.utah.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000121093753.01a51ba0@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at Jan 21, 2000 09:40:50 AM

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Lo and behold, Brett Glass once said:
> 
> At 02:46 AM 1/21/2000 , Reinier Bezuidenhout wrote:
>    
> >Hi ..
> >
> >Is there any similar rules in IPFW that simulates this ??
> 
> As I suspected, this is going to be the number one FAQ about
> this 'sploit.
> 
> No, IPFW can't do it without assistance from another program,
> which has not yet been written. 

  And which I'd wager you won't want to do.  The overhead of pushing the
acks into usermode will clobber you just as badly.  Using divert sockets
like that is not particularly efficient, unless something major has
changed between 3 and 4.

   -Dave

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