Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 20:37:39 +0930 (CST) From: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org> To: logix@foobar.franken.de (Harold Gutch) Cc: drwho@xnet.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: firewalling problem. Message-ID: <199906271107.UAA45269@atdot.dotat.org> In-Reply-To: <19990627130705.A11859@foobar.franken.de> from "Harold Gutch" at Jun 27, 99 01:07:05 pm
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Harold Gutch wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 11:48:51AM +0930, Mark Newton wrote:
> > Michael Maxwell wrote:
> > > Problem:
> > > I cannot allow my local net machines to talk outside to the net
> > > and still have a useful firewall at the same time.
> >
> > Read up the manpage for the "established" keyword.
>
> I may be wrong, but IIRC, the actual talk-connection is
> established between to arbitrary TCP-ports
Maybe I misread; Was the question about the talk(1) utility, or was
it about machines being able to "talk" (i.e.: exchange packets) with
each other?
- mark
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