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Date:      Sun, 27 Jun 1999 22:04:11 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Ralph Strohschein <ralph@tinynet.hamilton.on.ca>
To:        Michael Maxwell <drwho@xnet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: firewalling problem.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990627215958.35766C-100000@starlight.tinynet.hamilton.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <19990626210402.B1580@atlas.topquark.org>

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On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Michael Maxwell wrote:

> I have attached my /etc/rc.firewall as it currently is... please have a look
> for more info:
> 
> Problem:
>  I cannot allow my local net machines to talk outside to the net and still
> have a useful firewall at the same time.  The rule that allows the local
> hosts to talk outside completely defeats the purpose of having any OTHER
> rules in the first place (ipfw allow ip from any to any).  I have tried
> restricting the first "any" to <mynet>:<mymask>, but this also does not
> work.
> 
> Any help I can get on this would be VERY much appreciated.  Reading the 
> docs doesn't help much at all, and all the examples I've looked at on the
> net are of little help on this one, too...  It took me two weeks just to
> get this far...
> 
> Thanks again...
> 
> 
> -- 
>     Michael Maxwell <drwho @ xnet.com>  |  http://www.xnet.com/~drwho/
>   -- NATO: Now that you've destroyed Serbia, who you gonna kill next? --
> 
Your inside address is 192.168.16.1, which is a RFC1918 address. Look
at the RFC1918 section in your rc.firewall. You are blocking all traffic
to and from 192.168.X.X via ppp0.





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