Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:37:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Milan Andric <mandric@EECS.Berkeley.EDU> To: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: nfs and ipfw Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.30.0105100922130.22139-100000@argus.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <200105101616.f4AGG2u97467@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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On Thu, 10 May 2001, David Wolfskill wrote:
> >Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:10:34 -0700 (PDT)
> >From: Milan Andric <mandric@EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
>
> >Can't you just allow udp from you nfs server ip?
> >in rc.firewall:
>
> >${fwcmd} add pass udp from ${ip} to NFS-SERVER
> >${fwcmd} add pass udp from NFS-SERVER to ${ip}
>
> >Milan
>
> >On Thu, 10 May 2001, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote:
>
> >> Not only difficult but leaves large enough holes in your firewall to
> >> drive a Mack truck though it.
>
> Yup; that would qualify as "large enough holes in your firewall to drive
> a Mack truck though it". At least. (Was it your intent to provide an
> example of what Cy wrote...?)
>
> Actually, if you want all UDP to flow unhindered, why bother with a
> "firewall"??!?
<newbie>
to limit it by ip, and wouldn't a reverse lookup keep people from
spoofing?
</newbie>
vpn is not currently an option here, so how else does one deal
with nfs? Isn't it the most common way to share in unix environments?
So it's probably a common problem. How do we deal with it sanely?
If the answer is "don't use it." i'll accept that.. but it's not very
helpful to those that are hooked.
> (OK; there could be some reasons -- like just tracking
> usage, to using dummynet facilities... but calling the result a
> "firewall" isn't very useful.)
>
> Cheers,
> david
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