allowing gif thru ipfw

Eugene Grosbein eugen at grosbein.pp.ru
Wed Feb 1 14:23:46 UTC 2012


01.02.2012 21:12, Eric W. Bates пишет:
> On 2/1/2012 3:06 AM, Doug Barton wrote:
>> If it's a hurricane electric tunnel don't you want protocol 41?
> 
> Well, it's a straight up gif. Right this second I'm trying to suss out 
> which protocol gif's use. If it's documented, I can't find it. The 
> closest bit I can find on the man page is:
> 
> The behavior of gif is mainly based on RFC2893 IPv6-over-IPv4 configured 
> tunnel.
> 
> I tried to read the pertinent parts of the RFC, but it doesn't really 
> discuss "type" or "protocol". It does talk about some header size issues.
> 
> Since ipfw is obviously blocking something and I can't get a handle on 
> it with tcpdump, I'm groping for an understanding of the shape of the 
> gif packets.

Have you tried "tcpdump -i em_vlan5 -nnvvs0 host $he_tun and not tcp and not udp and not icmp" ?

I do not use IPv6 over IPv4 tunnels and not sure.
Perhaps, that is IPIP protocol (number 94 decimal)?

Eugene Grosbein


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