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Date:      Fri, 18 Feb 2000 15:38:25 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Sabre <sabre@sabresdomain.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Question List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Quick IPFW rule help...
Message-ID:  <20000218153825.A6630@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002162133160.4944-100000@sabre1.sabresdomain.com>; from sabre@sabresdomain.com on Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 09:38:33PM -0500
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002162133160.4944-100000@sabre1.sabresdomain.com>

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On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 09:38:33PM -0500, Sabre wrote:
> Hey all, I was going to play NoX on Westwoods internet servers, but
> descovered that I need to have udp ports 17590-17599 open for it.  So I
> added the following rule:
> 
> $fwcmd add pass udp from any to any 17590-17599 in recv ${oif} setup

This way you allow anyone to send udp packets *to* you, but your replies
will almost surely be dropped, unless a logically opposite rule allow
them through.  Use:

  $fwcmd add pass udp from any to any 17590-17599 in recv ${oif}
  $fwcmd add pass udp from any 17590-17599 to any out xmit ${oif}

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Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr >
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