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Date:      Mon, 1 Jan 2001 17:24:09 -0600
From:      Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org>
To:        Anders Nordby <anders@fix.no>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ipfw uid rules and matching specific services for bandwidth limiting
Message-ID:  <20010101172409.I72273@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010101210826.A69852@totem.fix.no>; from anders@fix.no on Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 09:08:26PM %2B0100
References:  <20010101210826.A69852@totem.fix.no>

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On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 09:08:26PM +0100, Anders Nordby wrote:

> Are people actually using uid type rules heavily? I'm having trouble matching
> the packets generated by programs like Apache and ProFTPD. I believe that may
> be because of root binding the ports these programs use before they setuid() or
> something, I'm not sure. Particularly I have trouble matching the packets of
> active FTP, since I have random ports on both ends to deal with and can't match
> them by port either. Does anyone have a solution to this?

sockstat is your friend, look at the 'user' that is defined per program,
thats who is going to be charged for packets on that socket.

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Bill Fumerola - security yahoo         / Yahoo! inc.
              - fumerola@yahoo-inc.com / billf@FreeBSD.org





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