From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 17 10:20:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [207.240.212.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 041FC14CA1 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 10:20:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Received: from tomasa (tomasa.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.11]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA23984; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 13:17:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <199910171717.NAA23984@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "Ken Kyler" Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 13:20:22 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Firewalls for Morons Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 17 Oct 1999 13:00:29 -0400, Ken Kyler wrote: >Anyone have a good URL for firewall info? I just got my FreeBSD (3.1) box >running and configured as an open firewall. The local net can't get out >with it set to simple. I need a VERY simple description for the Unix >challenged. Do you have Gateway set in /etc/rc.conf? You need: gateway_enable="YES" Can you get to the net from the FreeBSD box? Can the internal network computer(s) ping the FreeBSD box? What operation are you trying from the internal network and what is the error? If you are not running your own DNS do you have the name servers from your ISP listed in /etc/resolv.conf? Are the computers in the internal network refering to the FreeBSD box for DNS or referring to your ISPs name servers? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message