Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Old Synopsis: icmp socket receives icmp replies not owned by the
process.
New Synopsis: [icmp]: icmp socket receives icmp replies not owned by
the process.
This PR is bogus because:
ICMP has no concept of datagrams being "owned" by a process. There is
no field in the ICMP protocol which differentiates ICMP "sessions" on
a per-process basis, and this is because ICMP has no concept of
"sessions" -- ICMP messages are directed at IP endpoints.
ICMP echo and echo replies do have "sessions" of sorts, at least unique
identifying fields - identifier and sequence number.
This was opened by a pfSense maintainer because it's a change in
behavior from 6.x releases where this was never an issue, and is
something we feel is a regression.
Ideally you don't want to be pinging the same host from two different
processes, but it's difficult to avoid in some circumstances and it's
something that always worked fine prior to FreeBSD 7.0.
Thanks,
Chris
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