On Apr 3,  7:49am, 6b...@6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de 
(6b...@6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: npf bug(?)

| On Sun, 2 Apr 2017, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| 
| >
| > I am trying to understand the use case here:
| > 1. you want to have V4 DNS and 6to4 service that can generate V4 fragments
| > 2. you want V4 fragments dropped.
| > 3. you can't put V4 rules in your firewall to restrict traffic to only
| >   those services.
| >
| > Is that correct?
| 
| That is not completely right. I want to filter IPv6 with npf. IPv4 should 
| not be filtered. After the activation of npf the statistics shows:
| 
| Fragmentation:
|          1296 fragments
|          1104 reassembled
|          7160 failed reassembly
| 
| Since IPv6 is no longer reassambling, it must be IPv4 packets. I want to 
| make sure that the reassembly errors do not lead to packet losses, 
| especially at 6to4.

I understand now. You want the V4 packets to be left alone, and processed
by the V4 regular stack. I will look into it.

christos

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