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authorYaroslav Tykhiy <ytykhiy@gmail.com>2008-02-07 11:00:42 +0000
committerYaroslav Tykhiy <ytykhiy@gmail.com>2008-02-07 11:00:42 +0000
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Add a note that ipfw states do not implicitly match ICMP error messages.
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=176084
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diff --git a/sbin/ipfw/ipfw.8 b/sbin/ipfw/ipfw.8
index 2c175ed020bb..67ed26225d04 100644
--- a/sbin/ipfw/ipfw.8
+++ b/sbin/ipfw/ipfw.8
@@ -2711,3 +2711,9 @@ ipfw nat is not compatible with the tcp segmentation offloading
(TSO). Thus, to reliably nat your network traffic, please disable TSO
on your NICs using
.Xr ifconfig 8 .
+.Pp
+ICMP error messages are not implicitly matched by dynamic rules
+for the respective conversations.
+To avoid failures of network error detection and path MTU discovery,
+ICMP error messages may need to be allowed explicitly through static
+rules.