On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Bill Moran wrote: > This is crazy. There is no sane way that anyone can give you rules for > this without knowing the rest of your firewall rules. Amoung other things, > _where_ you place the rules in the list, and what other rules that may > match DCHP traffic are critical to the success of your firewall rules.
You're right. I did say that it was the "simple" rule set from /etc/rc.firewall, but it occurred to me later that the rules in there have changed over time. So I really should have said it was "simple" from /etc/rc.firewall in 4.7-Release. > Considering you stated that you're not sure if your firewall or dhcpd was > problematic, I would suggest the following diag procedure. Turns out both were working. The notebook had been working, at least when it was put into the bag a couple of months ago. In the meantime, the notebook's OS (*not* FreeBSD), had decided to render the USB Ethernet driver invisibly nonfunctional. The variations on ipfw rules were interesting, too. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
