Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 14:10:14 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cable modem hookup Message-ID: <199808110210.OAA03966@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <199808102217.PAA00958@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> References: Your message of "Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:17:41 %2B1200." <199808102117.JAA10843@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>
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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
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