From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 30 10:27:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.dcfinc.com (freebie.dcfinc.com [138.113.5.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82F1C1552E for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 10:27:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@freebie.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freebie.dcfinc.com (8.8.7/8.8.3a) id LAA24037; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 11:26:06 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199903301826.LAA24037@freebie.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.1-Stable Reboots after firewall load To: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 11:26:05 -0700 (MST) Cc: michel@quadspeed.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990330113800.0483d320@staff.sentex.ca> from Mike Tancsa at "Mar 30, 99 11:38:00 am" Reply-To: chad@dcfinc.com X-unexpected: The Spanish Inquisition X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > At 06:26 PM 3/30/99 +0200, Michel Quadflieg wrote: > Doing a flush on a network connection will have all sorts of bad > effects. However, it should not crash the server. I think the man > pages also warn about doing a remote flush. Doing the flush without redirecting the output will hang your machine as the status messages can't be delivered. Here's a script I use to open the firewall from a remote site. Obviously you'd close it (or change it) the same way. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= #!/bin/sh # # $Id: firewall_open,v 1.3 1999/01/06 04:14:07 toor Exp $ # /sbin/ipfw flush > /dev/null 2>&1 /sbin/ipfw add 65000 pass all from any to any > /dev/null 2>&1 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message