From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 16 18:59:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.mango-bay.com (mail.mango-bay.com [208.206.15.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6843537B419; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 18:59:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from barbish ([63.70.155.44]) by mail.mango-bay.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52377U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id com; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 22:03:30 -0500 From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" To: "Crist J. Clark" Cc: "FBSD" Subject: RE: IPFW check-state rules Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 21:59:16 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20020216184703.C48401@blossom.cjclark.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal 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 Ok then I ask you again, What needs to be added to get it to work? -----Original Message----- From: Crist J. Clark [mailto:cjc@FreeBSD.ORG] Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 9:47 PM To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: Patrick Soltani; FBSD; cvarda@flopnet.com.br Subject: Re: IPFW check-state rules 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