Bad loopback traffic not stopped by ipfw.

[Andrea Venturoli]

** Reply to note from Iasen Kostov <tbyte at OTEL.net> Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:37:25 +0200

>netstat -s -p ip
>..
>..
>..
>        3575124 datagrams with bad address in header
>  
>    Could it be this that drops "bad" packets before they enter the IPFW ?

Nice, it could be, but I'm not so expert as to tell for sure. Can someone with more insight confirm? And possibly
provide a pointer on why it is so, who blocks them, which are the criteria, ...?

In fact I think they ARE blocked, because otherwise I would see "Connection attempt ..." log entries.

Here it shows: 72641 datagrams with bad address in header


 bye & Thanks
        av.