Previously smacked into the keyboard > I don't know if this is your problem or not, but.... > > I use IPFW so this may not be the same as ipf, it may also not exist any > more for IPFW either. But I have 1 machine connected vie a cable modem > and dhclient. I have another machine connected via DSL and PPPoE and > dhclient. Both of these machines had to, might not be true any more but > one is in a different country and don't want to mess with it, configure > the kernel to IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT to ensure the dhclient could > connect on boot. After that I load a more restrictive firewall. But my > basic problem was that during boot, dhclient was being run before the > firewall rules were being loaded. Again, I don't know if this is still > the case. > > Jim >
It was pulling an IP address for my DSL provider even with ipf commented out in the rc.conf I would still have issues of "no route to host" From my reading into IPF and playing with it before the pppoe I was still able to talk to local interfaces. when I originally made up my ruleset I started out with "Block all" and went from there and those early days I was able to talk to local hosts from the local machine. This was back in June when I first got my cable modem -- Rob Zietlow Network Security Engineer SecurePipe Madison, WI (608)-294-6940 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
