Re: fixing out of order first fragment processing?

Max Laier wrote:
> On Thursday 22 July 2004 23:34, othermark wrote:
> Activation of pf with a
> scrub in on <interface> fragment reassemble
> rule works as workaround. 

Thanks for this suggestion,

I have a 'scrub in all fragments reassemble' that I just added and loaded
to my /etc/pf.conf, which does not seem to solve the problem.  Do I have to
specify a scrub for each interface in this case (maybe a better question 
for the pf list)?

> In every case you have to decide if you want to
> invest the required memory to store fragments, which might make you
> easy/easier prey for DoS-attacks. Usually, for an average gateway the cost
> is worth the gain (= increased security).

Most of the current systems today are able to handle both types of 
sequences.   It really is a small processing hit, FreeBSD already does
some bufferring with proper safeguards/maximums for various 
traffic patterns.

I would suspect some NFS/udp interoperability problems with the way it
handles fragments right now.

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