From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 10 19:11:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA12870 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 19:11:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (cyclops.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA12865 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 19:11:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id OAA03966; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 14:10:15 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199808110210.OAA03966@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 14:10:14 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: cable modem hookup Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199808102217.PAA00958@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> References: Your message of "Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:17:41 +1200." <199808102117.JAA10843@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10 Aug 98, at 15:17, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > Not to give away *too* many details...I keep an "open" firewall > configuration and have tcpwrappers (installed from the port) log and > reject interesting connection attempts to services such as telnet, tftp, > and so on. Note that sshd does its own logging. Also, I frequently have > tcpdump running in case something shows up that I didn't think to log, as > well as: > > sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain=1 > sysctl -w net.inet.udp.log_in_vain=1 OH. I'm new to sysctl. I just looked at the man pages for inet and found no reference to the above MIB names. Where should I be looking for details of what MIB names exist for a given application? > There's (IMHO) a very nice writeup by Jan B. Koum at: > > http://www.best.com/~jkb/howto.txt Yes, I've been there, quite interesting stuff, especially for a newbie (such as me). My FreeBSD box acts only as a gateway and doesn't do ftp, telnet, rlogin, etc. Given that, would ssh provie any benefit to me? -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd : my [mis]adventures To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message