Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 09:50:56 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: sergey@GLB.NET (Sergey V. Kart) Cc: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca (Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group), cjclark@home.com, lev@imc.macro.ru (Lev Serebryakov), freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG (All) Subject: Re: ipfw log accounting Message-ID: <200002291750.JAA82610@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002291536340.24153-100000@dima.glb.net> from "Sergey V. Kart" at "Feb 29, 2000 03:39:51 pm"
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> > Actually you need to be a bit selective, your host is going to have > > a real hard time doing arp's if you block all broadcast packets. Make > > sure you have a directly connected network specific ``allow'' of broadcast > > destinations. > Actually ARP works at 2 Layer of OSI ... If you'll block all broadcast > packets ARP will be working properly ! Perhaps ARP will work, but your going to have problems if you block all broadcast traffic, unless you have a very rare installation that does not need broadcast packets to work on the directly attached network. (Rip will defanitly not work) -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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