From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Feb 11 05:35:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA20336 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 05:35:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.id.net (mail.id.net [199.125.1.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA20318; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 05:35:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from server.id.net (server.id.net [199.125.2.20]) by mail.id.net (8.7.5/ID-Net) with ESMTP id IAA02745; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 08:44:01 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Shady Received: (from rls@localhost) by server.id.net (8.8.2/8.7.3) id IAA12694; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 08:35:48 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199702111335.IAA12694@server.id.net> Subject: Re: Packet filtering help please In-Reply-To: from Michael Slater at "Feb 11, 97 02:31:19 pm" To: slaterm@excel.tnet.com.au (Michael Slater) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 08:35:48 -0500 (EST) Cc: tiller@connectnet.com, FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-ISP@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > kernel, and using ipfw would be my best bet. This issue has become > > somewhat more urgent as our system is being attacked by a pesky (and > > persistent) 15 year old. I never did receive an answer on how much > > If you know who is trying to break into you system and how, then why dont > you just ring the police and have the little punk locked up. I believe > they take a dim view of that sort of thing. It really depends on the city, state, country, etc... Although in my experience, the police don't generally think twice about at least scaring the crap out of the little punk, even if they don't take him to jail... -- Rob === _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/ Innovative Data Services Serving South-Eastern Michigan Internet Service Provider / Hardware Sales / Consulting Services Voice: (810)855-0404 / Fax: (810)855-3268 / Web: http://www.id.net