IPFilter, mpd/Netgraph problems on RELENG_4

Peter Pentchev roam at ringlet.net
Tue Dec 14 01:23:18 PST 2004


On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:53:10AM +0300, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 10:05:50AM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> P> I am seeing a lot of ICMP Must Fragment packets with incorrect ICMP
> P> checksums on a RELENG_4 box which holds up 40-60 PPTP (mpd/Netgraph) VPN
> P> connections at any given time.  The peer understandably ignores the ICMP
> P> packet with a bad checksum and never fragments the offending TCP packet,
> P> effectively killing the connection after a while.
> P> 
> P> A major point is that I'm only seeing them on the interfaces NAT'ed by
> P> ipnat.  Is anybody else having trouble with ICMP checkums with IPFilter
> P> 3.4.35 on a reasonably recent RELENG_4 box?
> P> 
> P> FreeBSD unnamed 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #1: Thu Dec 2 10:31:16 EET 2004 root at unnamed:/usr/obj/usr/src-bsd/4.0S/src/sys/UNNAMED  i386
> P> 
> P> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Dec  2 11:43 /var/db/pkg/mpd-3.18_2
> 
>   Peter,
> 
>   does the problem disappear if you turn ipfilter off, and run natd on this
> interface? it is not clear from your mail.

We haven't actually tried it with natd.  This is one of the possibilities
that we may certainly try, though.

G'luck,
Peter

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