From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 16 18:47: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc54.attbi.com (rwcrmhc54.attbi.com [216.148.227.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD41037B404 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 18:47:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by rwcrmhc54.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020217024704.SEJQ1214.rwcrmhc54.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org>; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 02:47:04 +0000 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1H2l3V49779; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 18:47:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 18:47:03 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: Patrick Soltani , FBSD , cvarda@flopnet.com.br Subject: Re: IPFW check-state rules Message-ID: <20020216184703.C48401@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <3DBB075EEB95944492E127F2B9A96FAF0CE102@ultra-exchange.UltraDNS.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from barbish@a1poweruser.com on Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 09:29:02PM -0500 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ 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 Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 09:29:02PM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: [snip] > Is there not a additional protocol called arp or some thing like that, > that is used on the lan? > > I think this rule set needs some kind of rule to allow arp's through. > Do you know what I am talking about? ARP does not need to cross a network layer device. ARP is link layer. ipfw(8) doesn't know anything about ARP. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message