From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 26 18: 1: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-57-209.knology.net [24.214.57.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 178C537B40A for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 18:01:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f8R10ow26641; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 20:00:51 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200109270100.f8R10ow26641@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Parker Brown Cc: Edwin Groothuis , BSDQuestions From: David Kelly Subject: Re: dhclient: send_packet: Permission Denied In-reply-to: Message from Parker Brown of "Wed, 26 Sep 2001 12:46:00 PDT." <3BB23078.B50CC742@charter.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 20:00:50 -0500 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 Parker Brown writes: > 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? I tuned in this thread late. By any chance have you removed bpf from your kernel config? dhclient needs it. Found out the hard way so I annotated my kernel config so that I don't forget, again. # The `bpf' pseudo-device enables the Berkeley Packet Filter. # Be aware of the administrative consequences of enabling this! # required for dhclient DHCP (dmk 10/16/2000) pseudo-device bpf #Berkeley packet filter -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message