Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 20:42:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: Sam Carleton <scarleton@miltonstreet.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: allowing pings out from my firewall Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000724203733.21248A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <397CB410.9257A981@miltonstreet.com>
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On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Sam Carleton wrote: > ping: sendto: Permission denied > > After thinking about this for a moment, I realized that I believe this to > be a firewall issue. I have the "simply" firewall running on this machine > and I think it is the firewall that is stopping ping from going out. How > do I modify the firewall to allow pings and traceroute to get out? I too am running ipfw in 'simple' mode. To allow ping, I added the line '$fwcmd add pass icmp from any to any' (sans quotes of course) to /etc/rc.firewall. Works. OTOH, traceroute still doesn't work for me. It's not that big a deal for me right now, but I'd like to make it work on GPs. HTH. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org [1] Bus error netscape To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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