From owner-freebsd-net Fri Sep 6 9:29: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92D4537B400 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 09:29:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kraid.nerim.net (kraid.nerim.net [62.4.16.95]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CD3A43E77 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 09:29:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from meadele@nerim.net) Received: from nerim.net (bzero.net [80.65.224.39]) by kraid.nerim.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08956411B7; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 18:18:28 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3D790264.1000504@nerim.net> Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 19:30:44 +0000 From: mm User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "James B. Wilkinson" Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: permission denied on connect requests? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org James B. Wilkinson wrote: > Some of the machines in my student lab have a problem connecting to > others. The error messages vary only slightly, depending on which > program one tries to use. Here's a sample: > > > ping: sendto: Permission denied > telnet: connect to address 192.168.0.31: Permission denied > ftp: connect: Permission denied This looks like you have ipfw enable on your machine with a default rule denying everything (deny ip from any to any). You could add the IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT directive to your kernel configuration or adding some rules allowing what you need. Bye. -- Meadele Mathieu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message