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Date:      Wed, 1 Oct 2003 13:29:23 -0500
From:      "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com>
To:        Gary <gv-list-freebsdquestions@mygirlfriday.info>, FreeBSD <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Firewall problem
Message-ID:  <200310011329.23459.algould@datawok.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031001181817.21832.qmail@letric.mygirlfriday.info>
References:  <20031001181817.21832.qmail@letric.mygirlfriday.info>

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On Wednesday 01 October 2003 01:18 pm, Gary wrote:
> I have set my firewall to
>
> firewall_type="open"
> firewall_enable="YES"
>
> and when I want to drop a specific IP, I enter it manually, it accepts it,
> but it does not drop the packets..
>
> I am getting a lot of virus activity on my SMTP port 25. So I wanted to
> drop a few IP ranges/addresses..
>
> 00100  62054   5483792 allow ip from any to any via lo0
> 00200      0         0 deny ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8
> 00300      0         0 deny ip from 127.0.0.0/8 to any
> 65000 873327 293931424 allow ip from any to any
> 65100      0         0 deny tcp from 24.92.226.153 to any
> 65110      0         0 deny ip from 213.191.102.86 to any
> 65535      0         0 deny ip from any to any
>
> Yet, checking later in my SMTP logs, I am still getting pounded by the
> listed addresses. Can anyone explain why this isn't working?
>
> Thanks,

I'm a newbie at firewalls; but I'll take a guess:  Doesn't rule 65000 let all 
ip packets in before rules 65100 and 65110 are considered?

Andrew



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