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authoryar <yar@FreeBSD.org>2008-02-07 11:00:42 +0000
committeryar <yar@FreeBSD.org>2008-02-07 11:00:42 +0000
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Add a note that ipfw states do not implicitly match ICMP error messages.
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@@ -2711,3 +2711,9 @@ ipfw nat is not compatible with the tcp segmentation offloading
(TSO). Thus, to reliably nat your network traffic, please disable TSO
on your NICs using
.Xr ifconfig 8 .
+.Pp
+ICMP error messages are not implicitly matched by dynamic rules
+for the respective conversations.
+To avoid failures of network error detection and path MTU discovery,
+ICMP error messages may need to be allowed explicitly through static
+rules.
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