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author | pattonme <pattonme@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1999-06-11 19:51:56 +0000 |
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committer | pattonme <pattonme@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1999-06-11 19:51:56 +0000 |
commit | 5d30b9dd685cc89d485c7ec3f358e239e00bfe45 (patch) | |
tree | c0f370552269a2bc77a932ab385832086fd9d1eb /share/man | |
parent | 8f069142a8bb6e01c14dd0e540db2a7b207c4bc6 (diff) |
removed TCPCOOKIE support. small edit to ip-filter sections. removed reference
to pfil(9) which was rather obsolete.
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man')
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/options.4 | 36 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/options.4 b/share/man/man4/options.4 index 8926f90b3a9..5042763ca7d 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/options.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/options.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: options.4,v 1.33 1999/06/05 04:16:06 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: options.4,v 1.34 1999/06/11 19:51:55 pattonme Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: options.4,v 1.21 1997/06/25 03:13:00 thorpej Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1998 Theo de Raadt @@ -488,10 +488,10 @@ routine, the driver, the .Xr ncr 4 -driver, -and much of the networking code. -.Em N.B. This option is silently -.Em turned on by the DEBUG option. +driver, and much of the networking code. +Note that this option is silently turned on by the +.Em DEBUG +option. .El .Ss Networking Options .Bl -ohang @@ -606,17 +606,6 @@ one segment has been dropped per window, the transmission can continue without waiting for a retranmission timeout. This option cannot be used together with .Em TCP_SACK . -.It Cd option TCPCOOKIE -This causes the kernel to keep a list of "friendly" hosts, that is IP -addresses that have been verified to exist. TCP connections from these -addresses are allowed to proceed. Connections from other addresses -trigger a mechanism for determining whether those are "friendly". The -list of friendly addresses is controlled by the -.Em TCK_NFRIENDS -option, which is by default set to 16. Unfortunately, hosts behind -some stateful packet-filtering firewalls are unverifiable due to the -nature of the mechanism and the filtering process, so connections -from such hosts are not allowed to proceed. .It Cd option TCP_SACK Turns on selective acknowledgements. Additional information about segments already received can be transmitted back to the sender, @@ -632,22 +621,17 @@ outstanding data during the fast recovery phase by using .Em SACK information. This option can be used together with .Em TCP_SACK . -.It Cd option PFIL_HOOKS -This option turns on the packet filter interface hooks. See -.Xr pfil 9 -for details. .It Cd option IPFILTER -This option enables the IP filtering on the packet level using the -ip-filter package. This option requires that the -.Em PFIL_HOOK -option also be included. +This option enables the IP filtering on the packet level using +Darren Reed's ip-filter package. .It Cd option IPFILTER_LOG This option, in conjunction with .Em IPFILTER , enables logging of IP packets using ip-filter. .It Cd option IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK -This option sets the default policy of ip-filter. If it is set, -ip-filter will block packets by default. +This option sets the default policy of ip-filter to block packets that +exit the rule-set unmatched. Otherwise they are silently passed. See +ipf(1) for details. .It Cd option PPP_FILTER This option turns on .Xr pcap 3 |