From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 15 11:32:13 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 11:32:10 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news.lucky.net (news.lucky.net [193.193.193.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE91037B400 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 11:32:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mail@localhost) by news.lucky.net (8.Who.Cares/8.Who.Cares) id VMI16028 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 21:32:04 +0200 (envelope-from news@news.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua) From: "Andrey Simonenko" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Couple of basic questions Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 20:57:11 +0300 Organization: NTUU "KPI" Message-ID: <91dphh$116i$1@igloo.uran.net.ua> References: X-Trace: igloo.uran.net.ua 976906609 34002 10.18.54.109 (15 Dec 2000 18:56:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: news@news.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: Steven Newsgroups: lucky.freebsd.questions Sent: 15 декабря 2000 г. 21:45 Subject: Couple of basic questions > Hiya > > I've got 2 little questions, neither of which are life threatening or major, > but it'd be nice if i could sort them out. > > a) How do i stop getting all these: > > Dec 15 17:36:29 natd[205]: failed to write packet back (Host is down) > Dec 15 17:41:34 so-16671-x0 last message repeated 2710 times > > sent the console (I do know I'm running natd btw :)? I compiled the kernel > with: > > options IPFIREWALL > options IPDIVERT > options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE > options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=100 > options TCP_DROP_SYNFIN > options TCP_RESTRICT_RST > options ICMP_BANDLIM > > Do i need to recompile or can i set something in my natd.conf file? If you don't need NAT stop it and remove script which runs it or make proper configuration of your natd.conf file and IP Firewall rules set. > > b) How can i change the message which is displayed when people telnet to my > fbsd machines? When i was using LINUX i had /etc/issue files, but these > don't exist in fbsd (at least not under that location. I asked around, but > no one i know knows. It would be useful to stop kiddies on the campus > network trying to figure out what version of fbsd i'm using (IIRC nmap says > it is 2.x when its actually 4.1). > Change file /etc/motd, but don't use first two lines, they are overwrite every system startup. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message