From owner-freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 12 09:09:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2409E37B401 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 09:09:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kurdistan.ath.cx (adsl-64-169-155-173.dsl.chic01.pacbell.net [64.169.155.173]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2208043FD7 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 09:09:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sereciya@kurdistan.ath.cx) Received: from kurdistan.ath.cx (ns1 [127.0.0.1]) by kurdistan.ath.cx (8.12.8/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h3CG9V04098241; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 09:09:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sereciya@kurdistan.ath.cx) Received: (from sereciya@localhost) by kurdistan.ath.cx (8.12.8/8.12.6/Submit) id h3CG9UaX098240; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 09:09:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 09:09:30 -0700 From: =?unknown-8bit?Q?S=EAr=EAciya_Kurdistan=EE?= To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030412160930.GA77466@kurdistan.ath.cx> References: <20030403182847.GC23675@kurdistan.ath.cx> <20030403135048.D92663-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca> <20030405174853.GA94738@kurdistan.ath.cx> <20030406162735.GA2797@kurdistan.ath.cx> <1y0fl5v2.fsf@ID-23066.news.dfncis.de> <20030407004817.GB27284@kurdistan.ath.cx> <20030407185359.32117@caamora.com.au> <20030407161429.GC29510@kurdistan.ath.cx> <20030412183432.65109@caamora.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20030412183432.65109@caamora.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: jlm@caamora.com.au Subject: Re: Quick IPFW Question Concerning Sendmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: IPFW Technical Discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 16:09:44 -0000 Hello Jonathan, > sorry i took so long to reply, i am a disabled man, living i australia. Don't worry, I'm glad to hear you reply ;) > i spend a long time in bed some times, especially in winter. i have > severe arthritis there are other more serious complications but there > is no need to go preaching how hard teh world is . I hope you feel better. Now... how may I help you? > i've been watching your posts and keep up teh good work in freebsd we > need more people like you sereciaya. ok. Thank you! Such a wonderful compliment ;)) I know what it is not to know where to turn when you are stuck and looking for help ; I just want to return the favor in the spirit of open-source/net brotherhood ( and of course sisterhood, or Robin Hood Ooops! wrong hood ;) > thank you for your quick and most gracious responce .. and i got slack > with my responce, sometimes its just like that. I'm afraid I don't remember exactly what the question was, if you wouldn't mind refreshing my memory. > if i may ask, please ? Certainly! Anything! ;) > what sort of rig (ummm computer equipment do you run on your side of > teh wire ??? For my router, I have a 700 MHz AMD Duron, Hardware Raid 1, (2)120GB HD's, 256MB RAM. > i've got a small network in my spare bedroom (i recently moved into a > really nice govt 'project house' here in mascot right near australia > leading international air port, i'm right in teh middle of teh main > east-west runway .. the captains line up thier landing gear in teh roof > top ridges of my house big smile and laugh. Oh wow... I hope you don't wake up with any tire marks from the landing gear ;) Better keep a shotgun near so the "birds" land farther down the runway ;) > my network was untill recently a couple of 484dx33's (2 of them all > with 16 mb dram and 500 mb scsi hard drives) and a couple of 386dx33's > one with 16 mb dram and the other one with 8 mb dram and 354 mb esdi There's nothing wrong with legacy hardware, lots of people are making use of them ; turning once gigantic doorstops into servers, routers, and fileservers. Until very recently, my router had only one HD, a 1.2GB disk given to me by a friend. It died, and I was forced to make some changes running of a bootable cdrom with my firewall/router stuff on it. > hard drive it was my first computer and finally died. I offer my condolences. > the other 386 has > a couple of scsi drives (a mix of 300 and 500 mb drives). now i have a > 4'th hand 166 mhz p5 and a couple of pentium pros that need a bit of > work to get back into good running order. Wow. Good collection ;) Interested in clustering? > well thats me and mine .. sorry i got carried away bit., well there ya > go i've gobbled up a few lines again. I'm glad to be listening... only, if you would re-post your question, I would be more than happy to help you in any way possible ;) > with warm regards Good luck! --Sêrêciya Kurdistanî PS Always ready to help you out ;)