Re: Newbie Port Filter Question on 4.10stable

2004-11-23 Thread Evren Yurtesen
Hi, I think if your firewall is normally working fine. You can use #sh /etc/rc.firewall (notice the for putting it background) Because if you have last default rule to deny everything, the rc.firewall script first flushes every rule and if you are connected via ssh etc. you would get

Newbie Port Filter Question on 4.10stable

2004-11-22 Thread Simon Fishley
Hi All Very new to FreeBSD and google has not proved helpful for once. Running 4.10Stable and I would like to allow traffic on port 20 on my server and I assumed /etc/rc.firewall was the place to do so. I added a line in the file in the same format as the rule allowing port 21 traffic but was

Re: Newbie Port Filter Question on 4.10stable

2004-11-22 Thread Erick Mechler
:: Can anyone point me to a clear resource on what I should do to start, stop :: and flush the port filter rules and whether or not I was working in the :: correct place to begin with. Always start with the Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls.html Then,