From owner-freebsd-security Sun Jun 27 4: 9:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from atdot.dotat.org (atdot.dotat.org [150.101.89.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E28ED14C3E for ; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 04:09:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from newton@atdot.dotat.org) Received: (from newton@localhost) by atdot.dotat.org (8.9.3/8.7) id UAA45269; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 20:37:40 +0930 (CST) From: Mark Newton Message-Id: <199906271107.UAA45269@atdot.dotat.org> Subject: Re: firewalling problem. To: logix@foobar.franken.de (Harold Gutch) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 20:37:39 +0930 (CST) Cc: drwho@xnet.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990627130705.A11859@foobar.franken.de> from "Harold Gutch" at Jun 27, 99 01:07:05 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- I tried an internal modem, newton@atdot.dotat.org but it hurt when I walked. Mark Newton ----- Voice: +61-4-1620-2223 ------------- Fax: +61-8-82231777 ----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message