From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 10 15:20: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.x-treme.gr (mx2.x-treme.gr [212.120.192.15]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B889545C8 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:19:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat26.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.218]) by mx2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with ESMTP id BAA29206; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 01:17:45 +0200 Received: by hades.hell.gr (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4D52E68E05; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:27:41 +0200 (EET) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:27:41 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Chip Cc: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc.firewall problem - Take 3 Message-ID: <20000210162740.A13143@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <20000208040302.B10648@hades.hell.gr> <00020800084901.02763@firewall.homenet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <00020800084901.02763@firewall.homenet>; from chip@wiegand.org on Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 11:39:33PM -0800 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E X-Phone-Number: +30-94-6203692, +30-93-2886457 X-Address: Theodorou Kirinaiou 61, 26334 Patra, Greece Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 11:39:33PM -0800, Chip wrote: > > I still have a problem though. When I try to ping another machine on > my network I get the following message: > > ping: sendto: Permission denied > > I can ping the nics in that machine though. I believe this may be > because icmp is blocked by the firewall? Without the actual rules, as printed by `ipfw show' there isn't much I can guess about why ping fails to work. Blocked icmp's could be a reason, though. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public PGP key: finger keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr PGP fingerprint, phone and address in the headers of this message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message