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Date:      Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:38:38 -0600
From:      Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
To:        FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ipfw lost its mind?
Message-ID:  <E879B29E7D463AD4CA8D4543@utd49554.utdallas.edu>
In-Reply-To: <42275BF0.1060005@mac.com>
References:  <302EDA302808644CF37C11E5@utd49554.utdallas.edu> <42275BF0.1060005@mac.com>

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--On Thursday, March 03, 2005 01:48:16 PM -0500 Chuck Swiger 
<cswiger@mac.com> wrote:
>
> TCP connections are bidirectional, therefore you need to add rules which
> allow traffic from all back to your workstation, or else use keep-state
> and check-state to use dynamic rules....

The firewall script already had a rule for that:
allow ip from {server} to any

The problem wasn't that the firewall was *stopping* legitimate packets.  It 
was just *slowing them down* like crazy.  Very weird.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu



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