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Date:      Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:10:02 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
To:        "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org>
Cc:        hyghlander@mindspring.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Firewalling for PPP Connections
Message-ID:  <3992E1EA.AD9C2684@urx.com>
References:  <Springmail.105.965917807.0.73042100@www.springmail.com> <3992C145.345E5EBF@mitre.org>

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"Andresen,Jason R." wrote:
> 
> 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?

I agree but you can still be probed. What I would do is add the line
"nat deny_incoming yes" to your ppp config. User-ppp has changed and
you can see the current sample at
/usr/share/examples/ppp/ppp.conf.sample

Kent

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