From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 3 18:48:17 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B91C716A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:48:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7209743D69 for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:48:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCEEA5D45; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:48:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 36607-05; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:48:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-53-96.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.53.96]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABBD75C5C; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:48:15 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <42275BF0.1060005@mac.com> Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:48:16 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Schmehl References: <302EDA302808644CF37C11E5@utd49554.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <302EDA302808644CF37C11E5@utd49554.utdallas.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: ipfw lost its mind? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 18:48:17 -0000 Paul Schmehl wrote: [ ... ] > So, I removed rule 00001 and created a new one like this: > ipfw add 00050 allow ip from {my workstation at work) to any. > > I then ssh'd to my workstation and attempted to ssh back to the server. > No go. Yet ipfw show shows an increased packet count on the counter for > that rule. So, it's seeing the packets, but they're being delayed somehow. > > Why the allow ip from any to any works, but allow ip from my workstation > to any doesn't is a complete mystery to me. TCP connections are bidirectional, therefore you need to add rules which allow traffic from all back to your workstation, or else use keep-state and check-state to use dynamic rules.... -- -Chuck