From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 18 2:57:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dbasecentral.com (prod1.dbasecentral.com [205.243.161.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88AC214CEF for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 02:57:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@kyler.com) Received: from cheat (adsl-151-200-15-77.bellatlantic.net [151.200.15.77]) by dbasecentral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA08841; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 04:57:32 -0500 From: "Ken Kyler" To: "Francisco Reyes" Cc: "FreeBSD questions" Subject: RE: Firewalls for Morons Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 05:57:42 -0400 Message-ID: <000e01bf194f$3845c2f0$0200a8c0@cheat> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <199910180258.WAA24874@sanson.reyes.somos.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Glad you got it to work. > don't forget the deny log and allow log from any to any hints. > The "simple" set of rules will bump you into lots of issues, > specially if you have a "deny all from any > to any" at the end. I don't particularly like the open firewall > setting (i.e. allow anything which is not > trapped by a rule) because this may lead to open holes which one > may not be aware. > > Good luck! > Now that you got that working is only the beginning... Thanks! I may have more questions yet but for the time being, I need to read more on the firewall rules. The FreeBSD box communicates well but the NT box can't get through. At least the reasons why are logged for me! ...back to the books. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message