From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 25 9:48: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from glitch.crosswinds.net (glitch.crosswinds.net [209.208.163.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44D9037B4CF for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:47:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lexx.my.domain ([195.110.170.56]) by glitch.crosswinds.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA70956 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 12:47:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from john253@crosswinds.net) From: John Murphy To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP filters Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 17:47:15 +0100 Organization: The Organisation Reply-To: john253@crosswinds.net Message-ID: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim Percy wrote: >I've been working on our FreeBSD server (release 4.0) . It acts as >a dial on demand gateway for a network of 3 windows computers. >I've been having problems with the dial on demand being overly = sensitive. >The server seems to dial-up for anything. Could you possibly help me >with some rules for setting up a filter. All we use it for is browsing, >icq and mail.=20 The file: /usr/share/examples/ppp/ppp.conf.sample shows some very useful 'dial' filters which should solve your problem. I found I had to remove the trailing remarks to get them to work. Rules for browsing and mail should be easy enough. For http: set filter in 10 permit tcp src eq 80 estab set filter out 10 permit tcp dst eq 80 works for me... HTH John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message