From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 26 21:17:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA25180 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 May 1997 21:17:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.interlog.com (root@smtp.interlog.com [198.53.145.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA25160 for ; Mon, 26 May 1997 21:17:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from akmworkstn.quadtel.com ([207.34.208.185]) by smtp.interlog.com (8.8.3/8.7.6) with ESMTP id AAA29896 for ; Tue, 27 May 1997 00:17:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199705270417.AAA29896@smtp.interlog.com> From: "Christina Clarke" To: Subject: Configuring IPFW Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 00:12:55 -0400 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1161 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 <<<<