Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 21:37:32 -0500 From: "Peter C. Lai" <sirmoo@cowbert.2y.net> To: Ralph Huntington <rjh@mohawk.net> Cc: Matt Piechota <piechota@argolis.org>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Couple of concerns with default rc.firewall Message-ID: <20020224213732.A30666@cowbert.2y.net> In-Reply-To: <20020224210004.Q67313-100000@mohegan.mohawk.net>; from rjh@mohawk.net on Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 09:00:22PM -0500 References: <20020224110246.M17449-100000@cithaeron.argolis.org> <20020224210004.Q67313-100000@mohegan.mohawk.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
As another note, rc.firewall presents several preset options for your firewall, that of OPEN, CLIENT, or SIMPLE. I use a version of simple that allows more stuff through. I forgot about icmp until i realized i couldn't ping my box and some script which depended on the response time broke. I think allowing ICMP ought to be in either CLIENT or SIMPLE. On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 09:00:22PM -0500, Ralph Huntington wrote: > > I think the question is did the FreeBSD team intentionally (for the > > reasons of security) make the default install non-compliant with some > > RFCs (read: broken), or was it just not thought of? And second, > > should this be changed? I don't think the original poster was > > suggesting that deny ip from any to any shouldn't block anything, just > > asking should there be a rule in rc.firewall in the default install to > > allow ICMP so the machine is well behaved. > > Thank you. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message -- Peter C. Lai University of Connecticut Dept. of Residential Life | Programmer Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology | Undergraduate Research Assistant http://cowbert.2y.net/ 860.427.4542 (Room) 860.486.1899 (Lab) 203.206.3784 (Cellphone) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020224213732.A30666>