From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 7 18:08:50 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BD5E16A424 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 18:08:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.net (fw1.wmptl.com [216.8.159.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4AB643D77 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 18:08:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Received: from [10.0.0.104] (r3140ca.wmptl.net [10.0.0.104]) by wmptl.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jB7I8PBE001588; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 13:08:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <43972518.90700@wmptl.com> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 13:08:24 -0500 From: Nathan Vidican User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Singerman References: <54682af50512071003u64f55fdcxfa35c238b0375b2f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <54682af50512071003u64f55fdcxfa35c238b0375b2f@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0 () X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.44 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: odd problem with firewall server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 18:08:50 -0000 Matt Singerman wrote: > Hi all, > > This probably isn't a FreeBSD-specific problem, but it's vexing nonetheless. > > So we have our servers accessing the outside world through their own > firewall on a FreeBSD machine. Nothing too fancy, just routing > traffic and shutting off unused ports. However, this morning the > ethernet jack that the firewall server's world-accessible ethernet > port (dc1) was plugged into. The solution: plug it into another jack > :) This amazingly complex solution worked, except that I can now no > longer ssh or ping the machine. Any ideas as to what may have caused > this? > > Thanks, > > Matt > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > Not without knowing more about your network, and/or the switch/device at the other end of that jack. -- Nathan Vidican nvidican@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/