Re: Kern/73129 and 5.3-STABLE

From: Andre Oppermann (oppermann_at_networx.ch)
Date: 02/10/05

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    Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:53:21 +0100
To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>

    Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
    >
    > 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?

    The code that is currently in the tree. 

    -- 
Andre
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