Strange leakage of private source addresses w/ipfw and natd

Clemens Fischer ino-qc at spotteswoode.de.eu.org
Sun Oct 26 02:20:19 PST 2003


* 2003-10-07 Michael Sierchio:

> This doesn't have a (user-) noticeable impact on traffic, but
> installing a silent network recorder outside my firewall shows that
> some RFC 1918 addrs are getting through.

don't worry, just block them on the external interface.

> I'll post details when I've got them, but I'm wondering if anyone
> else has seen this?

it happens, and with my installation they are coming from the outside.

  clemens


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