IPv6 Fragmentation

Doug Hardie bc979 at lafn.org
Sat Feb 20 23:02:14 UTC 2021



> On 20 February 2021, at 04:13, Kristof Provost <kp at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> If you don’t have scrub fragment reassemble set then you have to include something like pass log inet6 proto ipv6-frag all to pass fragmented packets (assuming you block by default).
> 
> You really, really want scrub fragment reassemble because otherwise your firewall can be trivially bypassed, but you need one of the two for fragmented packets to work.
> 

I went with reassembly as it was easy to configure.  However, is there some place where the trivial bypassing is addressed in detail?  I would like to understand that.

-- Doug



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