Re: Kern/73129 and 5.3-STABLE

From: Gleb Smirnoff (glebius_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 02/10/05

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    Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:35:39 +0300
To: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@networx.ch>

    On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:27:35AM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote:
    A> > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:48:18PM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote:
    A> > A> The problem is with locally generated packets which go the wrong way.
    A> > A> This gets nasty when the box has to generate some path MTU discovery
    A> > A> ICMP message and such. What I implemented is the correct thing to do
    A> > A> and prevents foot-shooting. On the other hand it prevents people from
    A> > A> forwarding local ports and such. Both sides of the coin have merit
    A> > A> and there is no easy deciding between them or obvious right or wrong
    A> > A> choice.
    A> >
    A> > If it will fix said PR but break forwarding of local ports, then this is
    A> > not acceptable. In this case we will have another PRs in short period.
    A>
    A> I didn't say that, did I?

    Pardon, I probably misunderstood "On the other hand it prevents people from
    forwarding local ports and such".
    What did you mean here? 

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