Bug 11425
Summary: | ipchains man page wrong on ICMP deny/reject handling. | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Pekka Savola <pekkas> |
Component: | ipchains | Assignee: | Cristian Gafton <gafton> |
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 6.2 | ||
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2000-06-27 15:40:05 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Pekka Savola
2000-05-15 22:54:37 UTC
An example of the man page patch here (ipchains isn't being maintained anymore IIRC, so it's up to Redhat to leave it as it is, or to patch it): --- ipchains.8.orig Tue Jun 27 18:28:53 2000 +++ ipchains.8 Tue Jun 27 18:30:49 2000 @@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ .I DENY and .I REJECT -are the same for ICMP packets). +are the same for ICMP packets). [Note: this is incorrect; setting ICMP to +REJECT will cause ICMP port unreachables to be sent!] .sp 0.5 .I MASQ is only legal for the forward and user defined chains, and can only be fixed in rawhide. |