From owner-freebsd-security Sun Sep 13 23:40:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA13835 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 23:40:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA13825 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 23:40:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id XAA17637; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 23:40:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma017635; Sun Sep 13 23:40:10 1998 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id XAA16448; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 23:40:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199809140640.XAA16448@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: A question probably relevant to IPFW In-Reply-To: <19980913104429.16468.qmail@hotmail.com> from "N. N.M" at "Sep 13, 98 03:44:28 am" To: madrapour@hotmail.com (N. N.M) Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 23:40:09 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org N. N.M writes: > I was wondering if somebody could help me. I had a FreeBSD with IPFW > active on it to filter some kinds of packets. It was rebooted > automatically and frequently every 2 or 3 days at 2 am. I've removed > IPFW from it and also set up another FreeBSD (with the same > configuration) as the active filter. Now the new computer does the same: > it's rebooted automacally and frequently every 2-3 days at 2 am. But the > former computer hasn't been rebooted after removing IPFW from it and > since the time it wasn't the active filter. There is an old bug in ipfw that was fixed about a year ago. If you're running an old (eg, pre-2.2.6) version of FreeBSD try upgrading. Otherwise, nevermind :-) -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message