From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 8 20:13:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD1A537B479 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 20:13:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 1604 invoked by uid 100); 9 Nov 2000 04:13:31 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14858.9322.986458.499779@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 22:13:30 -0600 (CST) To: kris@grinz.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more firewall confusion In-Reply-To: <114041210@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG kris@grinz.com types: > i saw in the handbook that 'ipfw -a' will list all the rules but it > doesn't work.. it says invalid arguement. Why does it not work? Because the documentation is out of date and/or wrong. Please provide a URL for that page so it can be fixed. Try "ipfw show" instead. That's documented on the man page. > Also, where does it log stuff like reasons why connections were not > made? I have an ftp server at 192.168.1.13 and a client trying to > connect to it on 192.168.1.11.. the gateway for both machines is > 192.168.1.1. they can ping each other but cant do anything else > but they can both get out to the internet. I wanted to see on > 192.168.1.1 why it wasnt working but cant find a log anywhere. Check the console, /var/log/messages and /var/log/security.