From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 7:48:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mbunix.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C2C337BF6D for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 07:48:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA20739 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:48:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA04793 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:46:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id FZ2ZSK00.0KW; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:48:20 -0400 Message-ID: <3992C145.345E5EBF@mitre.org> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:50:46 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hyghlander@mindspring.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Firewalling for PPP Connections References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hyghlander@mindspring.com wrote: > > Folks: > > I've never been the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I was a little > confused about the reference to a network card in > http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/dialup-firewall/rules.html. For my > PPP interface, I'm going out via tun0 to a modem on a serial port. To > the best of my knowledge there's no network card in the machine. Um, if the machine has no network attached to it, why are you setting up the box to be a firewall? A firewall is supposed to sit between the internet and your internal network, but you appear to have not internal network, so the firewall seems kind of useless. Are you sure you don't just want to configure PPP and not bother with the firewall at all? -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message