From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 11 11: 6: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (unknown [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E7D937B69C for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:05:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA08266; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:03:30 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A5E0323.EF05263B@mail.iowna.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:01:55 -0500 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Danny Yoo Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: auto-updating and firewall References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Danny Yoo wrote: > 1) I'm relatively new to FreeBSD and I was wondering if there was anything > similar to apt-update for Debian. I understand that there is CVSup but that > just seems to update the makefiles for the ports collection. As a new O/S to > me, there are parts that I don't even know about that may or may not need > updating, but seeing as how I don't know they exist they would never be > maintained. No, it's used to update the whole system. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cutting-edge.html Read this whole section of the handbook - it will probably answer all your questions. > 2) I keep getting: > > arp: 192.168.0.1 is on lo0 but got reply from 00:50:ba:47:d0:ba on ed0 > > messages in my nightly security logs. My network is properly configured and > I have a well-built, tested firewall. Can I disable arp? What exactly do you mean by "properly configured"? Some details would be helpful. Is it your DNS or someone elses? How does your hosts file read. > 3) Where can I find info to upgrade from 4.1 to 4.2? Use the instructions referenced above to cvsup to 4.2-STABLE and then read /usr/src/UPDATING. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message