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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Eric F Crist <ecrist@secure-computing.net>
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Cc: andy@neu.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: laptop firewall rules
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On 2005-10-30 18:23, Eric F Crist <ecrist@secure-computing.net> wrote:
>On Oct 30, 2005, at 4:41 PM, andy@neu.net wrote:
>> Does anyone have a good example of a firewall ruleset for a
>> wireless interface in a laptop, or a pointer to documentation?
>> I want to use IPFilter on 6.0 rc1.  I want to let all
>> connections out and keep state, but block all incoming from
>> the outside.
> 
> That ruleset is easy:
> 
> ipfw add check-state
> ipfw add allow tcp from me to any setup keep-state
> ipfw add allow tcp from any to any established
> ipfw add deny from any to me in

No, please!

If you are using "keep-state", when "allow all established" is
hardly ever a good idea.