Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 20:31:41 +0000 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> To: Parker Brown <phbrown@charter.net>, Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> Cc: BSDQuestions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: dhclient: send_packet: Permission Denied Message-ID: <01092620314103.02034@> In-Reply-To: <3BB23078.B50CC742@charter.net> References: <3BAF944D.73747C9A@charter.net> <20010925103214.X10637@k7.mavetju.org> <3BB23078.B50CC742@charter.net>
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On Wednesday 26 September 2001 19:46, Parker Brown wrote: > OK, reread what you were asking. ipfw -a l gives about three screens of > firewall statements (allow this, deny that) and ends with deny all (?). I > grepped for udp and it looks like the firewall statements I added to > rc.firewall are not being honored. I also created /etc/ip.rules and put > those two statements in there, too, exactly as in rc.firewall (because > /etc/defaults/rc.conf made reference to that file). > > Any ideas? You have to have a rule similar to: ipfw add allow udp from any to 255.255.255.255 When the DHCP client first boots up, it doesn't know who to ask for DHCP info, so it broadcasts (255.255.255.255) ... you have to make sure the traffic can get through. > > Pb > > Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 05:10:39PM -0700, Parker Brown wrote: > > > ipfw add allow udp from any to any 67 out > > > ipfw add allow udp from (my DHCP Server bang address) to any 68 in To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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