From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jul 25 19:56: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.il.home.com (ha1.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A5F237BDBE for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 19:56:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu ([24.12.197.197]) by mail.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000726025603.QLJB23923.mail.rdc1.il.home.com@math.missouri.edu>; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 19:56:03 -0700 Message-ID: <397E5342.16736F51@math.missouri.edu> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 21:56:02 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Darren Reed Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: log with dynamic firewall rules References: <200007260239.MAA02404@cairo.anu.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ah, well this shows my patchy knowledge. I didn't even know about ipf until I read your post. I'll go read the man pages. Would running both ipfw and ipf be considered over the top? Darren Reed wrote: > > ah, you've stumbled across that one :) > > pass in log first ... keep state > > is what you would do in IP Filter :-) Remember, that there may be some > situations where you want to log them all. On top of that, you can just > leave out "log" from the filter rule and use the state log instead. > > You know, in half the time you've spent toying with ipfw you could have > had ipfilter working and not had to patch the source O:-) > > It seems the "statefulness" of ipfw is much more complex than it should be. > > Darren > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 Phone 573-882-4540, fax 573-882-1869 http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen stephen@math.missouri.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message