From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 13 14:32:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jezebel.demon.co.uk (jezebel.demon.co.uk [158.152.38.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18BD437B406 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 14:32:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdls@jezebel.demon.co.uk) Received: (from rdls@localhost) by jezebel.demon.co.uk (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f7DLTxw01285; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 22:29:59 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rdls) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 22:29:59 +0100 From: Richard Smith To: default - Subscriptions Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to allow pings through IPFW Message-ID: <20010813222959.B1208@gaia.home.rdls.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from default013subscriptions@hotmail.com on Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 01:28:34AM -0500 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 On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 01:28:34AM -0500, default - Subscriptions wrote: > 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 This should be enough, assuming that you've put it in the right place. ICMP packets may be block elsewhere outside of your network. Use `tcpdump' on your external interface to see whats really going on. -- Richard Smith Network Systems Director Satamatics Ltd Green Lane, Tewkesbury, GL20 8HD, United Kingdom Tel: +44 1684 278610 Fax: +44 1684 278611 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message