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Date:      Fri, 30 Mar 2001 20:10:36 -0500
From:      James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net>
To:        Rick Knebel <rknebel@uplink.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: udp ports
Message-ID:  <3AC52E8C.7B60850C@thehousleys.net>
References:  <p05001900b6eadc7e72bb@[192.168.1.2]>

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Rick Knebel wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> i have a small home network and firewall running on my freebsd box.
> I have 3 other computers that use it as a gateway to the internet and
> file sharing through Samba.
> 
> I am tying to block the udp ports 137 and 138 so that I can still use
> samba but people on the outside cannot see these ports.
> 
> I have tried now for 1 week to do this but no matter how I try when I
> have my computer scanned people can see my workgroup and netbios name
> and it says that ports 137 and 138 are visible.
> 
> I guess I cannot get this syntax of the commands right.
> 
I am using the following rules successfully, vx0 is my external
interface.

ipfw add deny tcp from any to any 137-139 via vx0
ipfw add deny udp from any to any 137-139 via vx0

You were missing port 139.

Jim
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