From owner-freebsd-security Thu Aug 31 23:39:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net (bsdie.rwsystems.net [209.197.223.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55EBA37B423; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 23:39:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net([209.197.223.2]) (1614 bytes) by bsdie.rwsystems.net via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 01:16:47 -0500 (CDT) (Smail-3.2.0.106 1999-Mar-31 #1 built 1999-Aug-7) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 01:16:42 -0500 (CDT) From: James Wyatt To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman Cc: Will Andrews , "R.Sharma" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to clear IPFW counters In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Will Andrews wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 03:22:52PM +0530, R.Sharma wrote: > > > Can any one tell me how to clear IPFW counters when system is running in > > > secure level 3. > > > > >From init(8) manpage: > > > > 3 Network secure mode - same as highly secure mode, plus IP packet > > filter rules (see ipfw(8) and ipfirewall(4)) cannot be changed and > > dummynet(4) configuration cannot be adjusted. > > > > You are SOL. > > Unless what you want to do is reset the logging counters. That's a > nice thing to be able to do :) Unless those logging counters are what you use to track (cross-check, really) hacking attempts. Then, you want them left alone so the Wiley Hacker(tm) doesn't reset them. Contrived, I guess, but reasonable. - Jy@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message