Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 12:51:26 -0400 From: <bob@a1poweruser.com> To: "Gareth Bailey" <gjbailey@gmail.com>, "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: IPF Firewall Rules... help! Message-ID: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGOEMLHDAA.bob@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <48a5f32a0504080626383f5441@mail.gmail.com>
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Gareth If you read the limewire website carefully you will see that no where does it say it will work on PC on a local area network (LAN). This is one of those products that buries the sending IP address in the packets. A PC on the LAN uses an NATed ip address and this product can not handle that. This is a common problem with products such as this. This is not an firewall problem. It's a design error in the products internet communications exchange of session packets. It's just not designed to work on PC that is on a LAN. To use this product your XP box has to be connected to the internet with a real public IP address. IE: not be on a LAN using NATed IP address. For your INFO attaching files is a bad thing to do. That is how virus get passed around and many people here on this list will not open them. Next time just post file content into body of your email post. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Gareth Bailey Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 9:26 AM To: freebsd-questions Subject: Fwd: IPF Firewall Rules... help! Hi Bob, Thanks, I have read the handbook and a couple of other articles. I have attached my ipf and ipnat rule lists. Please advise on the commented out Bit torrent sections. The windows clients want to run Limewire. WRT the LAN environment, we have a couple of Windows XP SP2 clients, and the freeBSD gateway. The external connection from the gateway runs upstairs into the block's router, which is connected to an ADSL router (no static IP). Thanks for your help! Gareth On Apr 8, 2005 2:51 PM, bob@a1poweruser.com <bob@a1poweruser.com> wrote: > Read the official FreeBSD handbook firewall section. It has working > examples. Any more help can only be offered if you post your rules > and give details of your LAN environment. > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Gareth > Bailey > Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 8:16 AM > To: freebsd-questions > Subject: IPF Firewall Rules... help! > > We have a freebsd gateway server for windows clients. We use IPF > with nat. > > What ipf rules and ipnat rules are required on the gateway for > Limewire peer-to-peer to connect on the clients. > > If you can help, please do... i'm doing something wrong! > > Thanks > Gareth > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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