[H-GEN] userppp filtering

john duncan katie4 at eisa.net.au
Thu Jul 12 17:17:18 EDT 2001


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Pulsford" <ianjp at optusnet.com.au>
To: <general at lists.humbug.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] userppp filtering


.  I had a glance at
> the filtering section and would be happy to help if I can in any way.
> Actually I am using ipfw and natd but OpenBSD uses ipfilter instead,
> except now Theo de Raadt had gone and got ipfilter removed thanks to
his
> brilliant diplomacy.
              Thanks Ian I did figure it out and am using it.
The problem area had something to do with dropping
malformed packets which can confuse some mail servers
that do a quick check after they receive mail.
                                        John Duncan


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