On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 23:15 +1100, Adam Summerfield wrote: 
> OK I just tested plain out of the box Solaris 10 sparc ipfilter on an
> Enterprise 250 with a quad fast Ethernet card and my adsl connection.
> 
> I was able to connect and the firewall was filtering on the sppp0 interface.
> 
> I saw two problems:-
> 
> 1.  The ipnat.conf file would not accept the mssclamp option I normally use.
> 

I don't use any NAT settings, so I guess I am safe here.

> 2. I could not get my pptp vpn connection to establish.
> 
> To get ipf to work on sppp0 interfaces you need to:-
> 
> 1. make sure that the plink option is in /etc/ppp/options
> 

Yes, I have this option in /etc/ppp/options.

> 2. make sure that the following line is in /etc/ipf/pfil.ap
> 
>       "sppp    -1      0       pfil"
> 

I have this line in /etc/ipf/pfil.ap.

> I then took the old /etc/rc2.d/S65ipfboot startup script and modified it
> with the new file locations and everything was working.  This makes life so
> much easier then the way that Sun are recommending in their documentation.
> 

On my machine ipfilter is started by those new service management
facilities and I checked they were running and the rules
from /etc/ipf/ipf.conf were active.

> Let me know if I can help.....
> 

Despite your advices ipfilter is still not working for me. Do you have
pfil listed in the output of "ifconfig sppp0 modlist"?

> Regards,
> 
> Adam
> 

Thanks for your reply!

Regards,
Albert

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