From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 20 4: 7: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from draenor.org (draenor.org [196.36.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1640637B664 for ; Sat, 20 May 2000 04:07:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcs@draenor.org) Received: from marcs by draenor.org with local (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12t75i-000Jl2-00; Sat, 20 May 2000 13:06:46 +0200 Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 13:06:46 +0200 From: Marc Silver To: "Mark S. Reichman" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firewall and DHCP dynamic IP Message-ID: <20000520130646.X61764@draenor.org> References: <3925AA16.55B78E3B@twcny.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3925AA16.55B78E3B@twcny.rr.com>; from reichman@twcny.rr.com on Fri, May 19, 2000 at 08:54:46PM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey there, You're welcome to read the guide I wrote about firewalling with dynamically assigned IP addresses. It does used natd, which I know you don't sound too keen on, but I'm sure you could use it as a good grounding for whatever you want to do: http://draenor.org/ipfw Cheers, Marc On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 08:54:46PM +0000, Mark S. Reichman wrote: > I am sitting on a DHCP connection at home. > I decided to turn log_in_vain on. I figured I > would just see what would happen. > To my surprise, I actully > am getting people trying to connect to my > box. Since I have no idea why folks are doing > this, I am assuming mistakes, I would like to > set up a firewall for safety. I have read articles saying > to enable natd and the FreeBSD OS firewall. I only have > one machine and dont need any address > translation. Is there a way to enable the > OS firewall and have a dynamic IP without using natd? > Should I use a diff firewall from the ports? Is it common > to have a firewall on a home computer attached > to a cable modem? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message