From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 21 9:57:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 217-126-145-95.uc.nombres.ttd.es (217-126-145-95.uc.nombres.ttd.es [217.126.145.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D651037B422 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 09:56:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E62183D4A for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 18:56:38 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 18:56:38 +0100 (CET) From: Simon J Mudd To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: ipfw and getting the interface logged In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > This messages are being issued by the log_in_vain="YES" > option in rc.conf. > These are connection attempts by somebody who is trying to break into > your system and got stopped before your IPFW firewall even knows about > it. That _would_ be fine, but it's one of my own machines on the LAN > This is a good thing. Do not change anything. Yes I need to change something because I want a remote X client to use my X server, and currently my _incorrect rules_ are not permitting this. In theory I have a ${ipfw} add pass all from ${mynet} to ${mynet} which is supposed to allow all my traffic on the network unhindered, but it's not working and I've got to figure out why. (Probably something simple, but with these things I can't currently see the obvious.) > You can do a whois ip command to see where those ip address > range is registered to. No need :-) but thanks for the suggestion. Simon -- Simon J Mudd, Tel: +34-91-408 4878, Mobile: +34-605-085 219 Madrid, Spain. email: sjmudd@pobox.com, Postfix RPM Packager To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message