Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 00:12:55 -0400 From: "Christina Clarke" <cclarke@autoform.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Configuring IPFW Message-ID: <199705270417.AAA29896@smtp.interlog.com>
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Dear FreeBSD list -- I am hoping to obtain some advice with my attempts to configure FreeBSD and IPFW as a firewall for our networks. Briefly we have a 12 station network running NetBEUI and TCP/IP, with a gateway to a Novell subnet (also routing TCP/IP). All our IP address space is properly subnetted and routed. I currently have NT 3.51/SP4 doing all the routing for us from a dedicated Internet connection. It is also a Web and FTP server, and is getting very heavily loaded. I am trying to set up FreeBSD/IPFW as a firewall to manage the ppp link and packet filtering. I believe I have set up and installed a Custom Kernel correctly, and edited my sysconfig accordingly. The box runs fine, and I have it sitting on an ethernet connection on a spare IP address to the Internet. With only one network card in it right now, however. I seem to be unable to do anything with ipfw, however. On boot, the error: /sbin/ipfw setsockopt failed issues, and subsequent attempts to do anything with ipfw (e.g. add rules or list the one default rule, etc.) result in errors like: ipfw getsockopt (IP_FW_GET) Invalid argument. I've read and re-read and... all the docs I can find without success. Any and all suggestions very much appreciated -- and please email me directly. TIA Christina Clarke ASL AutoForm Systems Limited // 245 West Beaver Creek Suite 9B Richmond Hill ON L4B 1L1 Canada Phone 905-771-1384 // Fax 905-771-1344 >>>> RDBMS * VB * C++ * HTML * Java * Internetworking <<<<
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