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Date:      Wed, 5 Sep 2001 20:52:55 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Cary <scattered@babel.acu.edu>
To:        Dru <genisis@istar.ca>
Cc:        Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: dhclient problems (w/ ipfw show)
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10109052051360.4932-100000@babel.acu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010905201754.D25332-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com>

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00100      0        0 allow ip from any to any via lo0
00200      0        0 deny ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8
00300      0        0 deny ip from 127.0.0.0/8 to any
00400    527    36501 allow ip from 150.252.106.57 to 150.252.104.0/21
00500    498   249731 allow ip from 150.252.104.0/21 to 150.252.106.57
00600  13973  1096248 allow tcp from any to any established
00700      0        0 allow ip from any to any frag
00800      0        0 allow tcp from any to 150.252.106.57 25 setup
00900      5      220 allow tcp from 150.252.106.57 to any setup
01000     19     1120 deny tcp from any to any setup
01100      6      478 allow udp from 150.252.106.57 to any 53
keep-state
01200   3894   295944 allow udp from 150.252.106.57 to any 123
keep-state
65535 103876 14505389 deny ip from any to any
## Dynamic rules:
01200 1 76 (T 10, # 82) ty 0 udp, 150.252.106.57 123 <->
150.252.128.107 123
01200 0 0 (T 17, # 92) ty 0 udp, 150.252.106.57 123 <-> 132.163.4.101
123
01200 3 228 (T 10, # 113) ty 0 udp, 150.252.106.57 123 <-> 

hope this helps. my computer is 106.57.  

Cary Mathews

Abilene Christian University
ACM Chair
| Education Committee
| System Admin: babel.acu.edu

On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Dru wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Bill Moran wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday 05 September 2001 16:22, Cary wrote:
> > > I've had my box up and running for about 2 weeks, no problems. About
> > > 5 days ago, I suddenly started getting the following message in my
> > > system logs:
> > > Sep  4 20:39:54 fledermaus dhclient: send_packet: Permission denied
> > >
> > > I have the kernel firewall (ipfw) installed and have used the rc.d
> > > script to start it up on bootup, as a client computer. But the
> > > dhcp.lease is recieved
> > > without any problem when I bootup, so I don't think ipfw is the source
> > > of the problem.  If I turn my computer reboot my computer, it may or
> > > may not get the lease at first, but then it will. Afterwards, I can
> > > access the network and all, but then these messages start showing up
> > > again. My ability to get work done is not affected (that I've noticed)
> > > but it is very annoying to have to scroll through the syslogs and
> > > seeing this repeated ad infinitum.
> >
> > I hit this one a little while back with firewalls. If I'm remembering incorrectly,
> > someone else feel free to correct me.
> > When the machine first boots up, and it doesn't know who the DHCP
> > server will be, it does ethernet broadcasts to find a DHCP server and config
> > its networking.
> > However, once it's been running for a while and it's time to renew the
> > DHCP lease, it connects to the server in a different manner - which can
> > be adversely affected by firewall rules.
> > I don't remember the details (i.e. ports and firewall rules to allow DHCP)
> > but the way I figured it out was to run a sniffer (ethereal or tcpdump) and
> > see what was actually happening. You can do the same.
> 
> Hi Cary,
> 
> I second what Bill says; though it's hard to see what's blocking what
> without a look at your firewall rules. The following article might shed
> some light on what DHCP is doing:
> 
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/06/01/FreeBSD_Basics.html
> 
> If that doesn't help, send the output of "ipfw show" to the list.
> 
> Dru
> 


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