Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 00:21:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Aaron D. Gifford" <agifford@infowest.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipfw problem??? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808120020260.28795-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35CF769F.68C80A22@infowest.com>
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On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Aaron D. Gifford wrote: > Something's weird with my ipfw setup. It seems to work perfectly as I > expected except for this tiny bit of weirdness. My ipfw setup lets me > ping and traceroute and telnet to my heart's content EXCEPT when the > remote address is within the same class C address space as my own > dynamically assigned IP number. Then I get "sendto: Permission denied." > errors left and right. Why is this? I checked my netmask via 'netstat > -in' and sure enough, my netmask is 255.255.255.255. What's going on > here? Your netmask is wrong. 255.255.255.255 is not a valid netmask for a standard class C, it should be 255.255.255.0. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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