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Date:      Thu, 05 Aug 1999 13:00:26 -0700 (MST)
From:      vagner@WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM
To:        Christian Kratzer <ck@toplink.net>
Cc:        Joe <ibjoe@home.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Eric Lee Green <elgreen@iname.com>, vagner@WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM
Subject:   Re: FREEBSD, Proxy Server, Cable Modem
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990805130026.vagner@vagner.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9908052139390.31639-100000@hirvi.toplink.net>

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I wasnt aware of this! sorry i will change that as soon
as i get erics card in the mail.


On 05-Aug-99 Christian Kratzer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the point Eric was getting upset about was propably that you said yuo were
> only using one network card and a hub.  Your cable modem is a bridge. In a
> setup
> like this all yuor ip's and mac address would leak to the public side even
> if you would route them onto a nat firewall first.
> 
> All it needs is an arp request coming in over the wire for the ip address
> range yuo are using internally and your machines would answer and expose
> themselves.
> 
> If you are running only one network card you are unprotected.
> 
> Greetings
> Christian
> 
> 
> On Thu, 5 Aug 1999 vagner@WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM wrote:
> 
>> Sorry it isnt me, I am using firewall and natd and i dont use the
>> 192.168.1.xxx
>> for my internal addresses.
>> 
>> a quick scan of their network revealed 542 duplicate ip addresses in the
>> range of 192.168.x.x so there are alot of "Morons" on their network
>> which is probably correct since they only support Microsoft morons.
>> 
>> 
>>  
>> On 05-Aug-99 Eric Lee Green wrote:
>> > On Thu, 05 Aug 1999, vagner@www.timandpatrick.com wrote:
>> >> I also have a similiar setup, mine has only one network card,
>> >> basically come out of the cable modem into a hub and just plug in the
>> >> freebsd
>> >> machine and then point the other machines to the freebsd machine that has
>> >> firewall and natd running.
>> > 
>> > So *YOU* are the moron making my kernel complain that "192.168.1.1 is on
>> > de0,
>> > but was accessed from rl0".  (Yes, I'm on cable modem too).
>> > 
>> > It's silliness like this that's going to get FreeBSD and Linux users
>> > banned
>> > from the cable network.  You can't just put any old addresses out onto a
>> > public Ethernet (which is what the cable "modem" is, basically) and expect
>> > the
>> > rest of us to put up with it. 
>> > 
>> > Put another card into your machine and use it as a gateway and firewall.
>> > Please.
>> > I'll even send you a spare RTL-based card if you want (they're slow and
>> > worthless for real work, but okay for half-duplex 10BaseT), and provide
>> > detailed
>> > setup for how to set up ipfw and natd (it's pretty easy, just a couple of
>> > rc.conf tweaks). Just please quit polluting the public network with your
>> > private
>> > addresses!
>> > 
>> > --
>> > Eric Lee Green    http://members.tripod.com/e_l_green
>> >   mail: e_l_green@hotmail.com
>> >                     ^^^^^^^    Burdening Microsoft with SPAM!    
>> > 
>> > 
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>> 
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>> E-Mail: vagner@vagner.com or kf7nn@kf7nn.com
>> Date: 05-Aug-99
>> Time: 12:07:46
>> 
>>         "What the hell are you getting so upset about?  I thought you
>> didn't believe in God."
>>         "I don't," she sobbed, bursting violently into tears, "but the
>> God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God.  He's
>> not the mean and stupid God you make Him out to be."
>>                 -- Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
>>  
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E-Mail: vagner@vagner.com or kf7nn@kf7nn.com
Date: 05-Aug-99
Time: 12:58:51

If Reagan is the answer, it must have been a VERY silly question.
 
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