From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 12 22: 6:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from indigo.dreamfire.net (indigo.dreamfire.net [207.113.154.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 138BB37BBA9 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 22:06:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sean@dreamfire.net) Received: from valiant.dreamfire.net (valiant [24.11.227.21]) by indigo.dreamfire.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBAB19452 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 22:06:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by valiant.dreamfire.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4487932E; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 22:04:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 22:04:32 -0700 From: Sean-Paul Rees To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Refuse versus Filter Message-ID: <20000412220432.A1974@dreamfire.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG G'day, I have several ipfw rules to protect some potentially vulnerable services from being exploited from the outside. However, when I do a nmap, all the ports that I block show up as filtered. Is there a way to get a "Connection refused" effect with ipfw instead of a connection just hanging? I run 4.0-STABLE/i386. -- Cheers, Sean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message