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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: John Heffner <johnwheffner@gmail.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	steffen.klassert@secunet.com, fweimer@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/3] path mtu hardening patches
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 23:48:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140113224835.GA28205@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140113221504.GM6586@order.stressinduktion.org>

Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:03:56PM +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> > I really don't like to depend on firewalling to do that. Especially on
> > big routers one can use the routing table to protect interfaces for
> > management and thus don't need to introduce stateful firewalling to
> > realize a secure router setup which could cause performance degradation,
> > especially with lots of small and shortlived flows (e.g. UDP/DNS).
> 
> This may get better if maybe some work is put into bringing this patch
> forward: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/268758

Jesper Brouer is working on this.

But, why do you even need stateful firewalling for filtering?
Isn't -m socket enough?

[ sorry if you already explained, might have missed it when search
archive ]

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-13 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-09  9:01 [PATCH net-next v4 0/3] path mtu hardening patches hannes
2014-01-09  9:01 ` [PATCH net-next v4 1/3] ipv4: introduce ip_dst_mtu_maybe_forward and protect forwarding path against pmtu spoofing hannes
2014-01-09  9:01 ` [PATCH net-next v3 2/3] ipv6: introduce ip6_dst_mtu_forward and protect forwarding path with it hannes
2014-01-09  9:01 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/3] ipv4: introduce hardened ip_no_pmtu_disc mode hannes
2014-01-13 19:25 ` [PATCH net-next v4 0/3] path mtu hardening patches David Miller
2014-01-13 19:35   ` John Heffner
2014-01-13 20:42     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-13 21:08       ` John Heffner
2014-01-13 21:28         ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-13 21:50           ` John Heffner
2014-01-13 22:03             ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-13 22:15               ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-13 22:48                 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2014-01-13 23:18                   ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-13 22:12             ` David Miller

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