From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 12 23:29: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe28.law12.hotmail.com [64.4.18.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A69A37B40D for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 23:29:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from default013subscriptions@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 23:29:03 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [24.14.93.185] Reply-To: "default - Subscriptions" From: "default - Subscriptions" To: Subject: How to allow pings through IPFW Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 01:28:34 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Aug 2001 06:29:03.0324 (UTC) FILETIME=[3EDA51C0:01C123C1] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm fairly new to IPFW, and although I have added this rule to my rc.firewall, I am still unable to ping other hosts from my system. I do not get any error message or anything... I assume there must be some kind of block on the receipt of ping data back from the host... Here is the rule that I added: $fwcmd add allow icmp from any to any Anyone know how to allow this? Thanks, Jordan Markwell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message