From owner-freebsd-security Tue Feb 29 9:52:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C8D437BCA6 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 09:52:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA82610; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 09:50:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200002291750.JAA82610@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: ipfw log accounting In-Reply-To: from "Sergey V. Kart" at "Feb 29, 2000 03:39:51 pm" To: sergey@GLB.NET (Sergey V. Kart) Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 09:50:56 -0800 (PST) Cc: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca (Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group), cjclark@home.com, lev@imc.macro.ru (Lev Serebryakov), freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG (All) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (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 > > Actually you need to be a bit selective, your host is going to have > > a real hard time doing arp's if you block all broadcast packets. Make > > sure you have a directly connected network specific ``allow'' of broadcast > > destinations. > Actually ARP works at 2 Layer of OSI ... If you'll block all broadcast > packets ARP will be working properly ! Perhaps ARP will work, but your going to have problems if you block all broadcast traffic, unless you have a very rare installation that does not need broadcast packets to work on the directly attached network. (Rip will defanitly not work) -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message