On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 09:02, Tom Eastep wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 08:54, Tom Eastep wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Ray has been telling you for some time now but it's not getting through;
> > you cannot simply hack in an arbitrary set of iptables commands into a
> > Shorewall-configured firewall and expect them to work. You have to
> > understand what Shorewall's ruleset does and you have to understand how
> > adding your additional rules might affect what that ruleset does.
> > 
> 
> In your particular case, you are inserting rules into the FORWARD chain
> BEFORE THE SHOREWALL-GENERATED TCPMSS RULE!!!! And since your accounting
> rules aren't passive (they ACCEPT the packets), the TCPMSS rule is never
> being traversed. So for those IP addresses that you are accounting for,
> the setting of CLAMPMSS is being effectively ignored.

What I recommend that you do is:

a) Install 1.4.8
b) Use accounting rules such as these:

myrulei:COUNT   -       -               192.168.1.10
myruleo:COUNT   -       192.168.1.10
...

-Tom
-- 
Tom Eastep    \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool
Shoreline,     \ http://shorewall.net
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