From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 19 5:58:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9F9F37B401 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 05:58:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whoweb.com (whoweb.com [208.146.132.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4776D43E3B for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 05:58:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mailist@whoweb.com) Received: (from mailist@localhost) by whoweb.com (8.8.8/8.8.6) id JAA28141; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:01:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:01:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Incoming Mail List Message-Id: <200209191301.JAA28141@whoweb.com> To: dfolkins@comcast.net, mailist@whoweb.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipfw rulesets Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > yes, i can. :) the reason this doesnt work is that a telnet > connection is not between your host [port 23] and server host > [port 23]. it is actually between your host [random port number > between 1024 and 65535] and server host [port 23]. > i hope this cleared it up for you? Yes, it did, and thank you for that excellent explanation. It is exactly the info I needed. Obviously my context of logic was not matching the "logic" built into ipfw() and I was perplexed by this problem. Now the rules make sense to me. Thank you again for your patience. Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message