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On 12/20/2016 03:08 PM, Philip Le Riche wrote:
> I'm trying to run traceroute from a Raspberry Pi on one side of 
> shorewall through to the Internet on the other, for the purposes of
> an Internet routing lesson.
> 
> I can detect some hosts on the far side of shorewall but not as
> many as I was hoping (possibly due to ISP filtering), even though I
> didn't think to add a rule for returning icmp timeout packets. On
> reflection, perhaps I ought to have since a rule is needed for
> ping. Does this indicate that shorewall passes some icmp packets by
> default, and if so, which? I don't immediately see anything on this
> in the documentation.
> 

Netfilter connection tracking will classify returned icmp packets as
RELATED to the original outgoing packet, and Shorewall accepts RELATED
packets by default.

- -Tom
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Shoreline,         \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like
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