From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 6 4:49:43 2003 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 DC6D937B401 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:49:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from ms-smtp-01.tampabay.rr.com (ms-smtp-01.tampabay.rr.com [65.32.1.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 393DB43FA3 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:49:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ka0ttic@cfl.rr.com) Received: from ka0ttic (142.89.35.65.cfl.rr.com [65.35.89.142]) by ms-smtp-01.tampabay.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h26Cnd14018807 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 07:49:39 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: please help: nntp and gaming with ipfw From: Aaron Walker To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <1046954586.2146.124.camel@ka0ttic> References: <1046954586.2146.124.camel@ka0ttic> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) Date: 06 Mar 2003 07:48:32 -0500 Message-Id: <1046954912.2146.129.camel@ka0ttic> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 Doh.. I meant to add that I have neither of these problems when I hook my network back up to my old linksys cable/dsl firewall/router.. I am hoping I can fix this because otherwise it would be pointless to use the freebsd box as the firewall/gateway, as I don't really want to run downstairs and make the switch every time I'd like to use usenet or play a few rounds of bf... On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 07:43, Aaron Walker wrote: > I have FreeBSD 4.7 running on my old p100 setup as a firewall.. > everything works except for 2 things: nntp (it somewhat works) and > playing a game through the firewall from a windows box (battlefield 1942 > specifically) > > With nntp I can view newsgroups but I get a lot of lag.. more like it > freezes.. in mozilla mail when I click on a message on a newsgroup, it > just sits there and says "Loading document..." in the status bar. > Sometimes it works, but the majority of the time I have that problem. I > know it is not mozilla that is the problem because I can produce it on > my windows box with other news clients. Here is the output of "ipfw > show | grep 119" > > 00425 30925 1359340 allow tcp from any to any 119 keep-state out > xmit ep0 setup > 00426 0 0 allow udp from any to any 119 keep-state out > xmit ep0 > 00605 0 0 allow tcp from any 119 to any keep-state in recv > ep0 setup > 00606 0 0 allow udp from any 119 to any keep-state in recv > ep0 > > if its not the firewall and these rules are ok, then what else could it > be? > > > With Battlefield 1942.. it uses port 14567. I cant get this to work at > all. > > I have the following in my firewall rules: > > 00335 0 0 allow tcp from any 14567 to any keep-state out xmit ep0 setup > > 00336 0 0 allow udp from any 14567 to any keep-state out xmit ep0 > > 00620 0 0 allow tcp from any to any 14567 keep-state in recv ep0 setup > > 00621 0 0 allow udp from any to any 14567 keep-state in recv ep0 > > any ideas what's wrong with these rules? > > any help is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Aaron > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message