From owner-freebsd-security Mon Feb 26 15:55:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from eastwood.aldigital.algroup.co.uk (ns.algroup.co.uk [194.128.162.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F00F37B401 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 15:55:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adam@algroup.co.uk) Received: from algroup.co.uk (socks-fw.aldigital.co.uk [192.168.254.10]) by eastwood.aldigital.algroup.co.uk (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id XAA02319; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 23:54:57 GMT Message-ID: <3A9AEBD2.1E601ED9@algroup.co.uk> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 23:50:42 +0000 From: Adam Laurie Organization: A.L. Group plc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gerhard Sittig Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc.firewall fixes References: <3A93A9CC.BC1D39FB@algroup.co.uk> <3A93C2FB.3E160997@ocsinternet.com> <3A94AE05.965BC5E4@gorean.org> <3A9526AA.19D00D47@ocsinternet.com> <3A954152.C7887C3@gor.com> <3A97A4E6.C53ECF27@algroup.co.uk> <3A982224.893F76AF@gorean.org> <5.0.2.1.0.20010225114958.00b10858@pop3.demon.co.uk> <20010225154736.O20830@speedy.gsinet> <3A9A2AE7.DDD4E33B@algroup.co.uk> <20010226175056.R20830@speedy.gsinet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gerhard Sittig wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:07 +0000, Adam Laurie wrote: > > > > uname -v > > FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE #1: Mon Feb 19 14:46:17 GMT 2001 > > > > from /etc/rc.firewall: > > > > # set these to your network and netmask and ip > > net="192.0.2.0" > > mask="255.255.255.0" > > ip="192.0.2.1" > > > > update your rc.firewall and you lose your network setting. > > OK, then make these fallbacks in case rc.conf doesn't have better > suited values. And feed back your improvement to the project. > > Alternatively wait for others to do it for you. But then don't > moan when it won't happen or happens too slow ... You can make > it happen faster if you contribute. kindly don't lecture me on the etiquette of open source development. if you read the archives of this list you will see that i have tried several times to contribute improvements in this particular area, and indeed offered once again to contribute my "mobile" firewall settings on this very thread. the problem here seems to be that unless the area you are trying to improve is some third party port, it is impossible to achieve consensus on what needs doing... and until we reach consensus there is little point in submitting patches. cheers, Adam -- Adam Laurie Tel: +44 (20) 8742 0755 A.L. Digital Ltd. Fax: +44 (20) 8742 5995 Voysey House http://www.thebunker.net Barley Mow Passage http://www.aldigital.co.uk London W4 4GB mailto:adam@algroup.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM PGP key on keyservers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message