[geeks] An NFS conundrum (solved)

[Phil Stracchino]

Mike Meredith wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:10:04 -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> same way as it broke on llioness.  So despite all the traffic LOOKING
>> right, and despite doing all appropriate packet scrubbing and
>> reassembly on the firewall, UDP datagrams are in fact getting hosed
>> going across the firewall.
> 
> I did a little googling because I wouldn't expect an OpenBSD firewall
> to do anything odd. I came across :-
> 
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/579
> 
> I don't know if this has been fixed but it sounds like somebody is
> forgetting the principle of least astonishment ... on balance probably
> the Linux people.


Ahhh, that is indeed enlightening.  Thanks.



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