From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 5 8: 3:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.samuelstn.dhs.org (h24-64-81-248.cg.shawcable.net [24.64.81.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E744537B404 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 08:03:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 88508 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2002 15:03:48 -0000 Received: from firewall (HELO SAMCHOW1.ca.nortel.com) (192.168.1.1) by homeserver with SMTP; 5 Jun 2002 15:03:48 -0000 Message-ID: <007301c20ca2$ae7da3e0$2784412f@ca.nortel.com> From: "Samuel Chow" To: Cc: "FBSDQ" References: Subject: Re: dhcp client and cable modem Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 09:07:16 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm using the FBSD built in dhcp client on the Nic card to the cable modem. > My ipfw firewall is denying a bunch of packets which never happened > with the modem connection. > > Could somebody tell me what ipfw rules I need to allow the cable isp > dhcp server to correspond with my FBSD gateway? Are you saying your dhclient cannot get an IP address because of ipfw? If so, try the following rules (of course, replace rule number and interface): # Allow DHCP packets in and out 3200 add pass udp from any 68 to any 67 out via xl0 3200 add pass udp from any 67 to any 68 in via xl0 Hope this helps. --- Samuel Chow samuelc@samuelstn.dhs.org This message is displayed using recycled electrons. Segmentation Fault (core dumped) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message