Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

2006-01-24 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which tool would be able to do this sort of thing best and how might it have been done. PF has most of the bits you need built in, see eg http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/bruteforce.html (part of a PF tutorial). For weeding out old table entries, you might

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

2006-01-24 Thread jdow
Ack, it looks like it would limp through doing the simple job wanted. The good news is that I can make it work. The bad news is that it's apparently so much simpler with the Linux iptables facilities. I can see I have a bunch of reading to do before setting up to replace the firewall machine.

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

2006-01-19 Thread Erik Norgaard
Peter wrote: --- Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gable Barber wrote: On 1/18/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Switch over to pf. Why do you suggest PF over IPF? Hope I am not starting a war here.. but I am genuinely interested in the opinions. I used IPF on FBSD until there was

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

2006-01-19 Thread Peter
--- Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter wrote: --- Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gable Barber wrote: On 1/18/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Switch over to pf. Why do you suggest PF over IPF? Hope I am not starting a war here.. but I am genuinely

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

2006-01-19 Thread jdow
From: Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nce writeup. I do have one question at the bottom. I used IPF on FBSD until there was some bug in IPF for 5.x some version that forced me to switch after an upgrade. The bug has been fixed since but I have found no reason to go back. There are two

How to tell if IPF is running?

2006-01-18 Thread Gable Barber
Howdy List... I am trying to figure out if ipf is running for certain. FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE . I added the following to /etc/rc.conf : ipfilter_enable=YES ipmon_enable=YES ipmon_flags=-Dsvn ipnat_enable=YES ipfs_enable=YES I added a rule file /etc/ipf.conf , and flushed/reloaded ipf with the

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

2006-01-18 Thread chris
ipf runs as a kernel module or compiled into the kernel you will never see it running as a normal program you will know it is running by testing your firewall to make sure it does what it was meant to do Howdy List... I am trying to figure out if ipf is running for certain. FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

2006-01-18 Thread Erik Norgaard
Gable Barber wrote: Howdy List... I am trying to figure out if ipf is running for certain. FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE . I added the following to /etc/rc.conf : ipfilter_enable=YES ipmon_enable=YES ipmon_flags=-Dsvn ipnat_enable=YES ipfs_enable=YES I added a rule file /etc/ipf.conf , and

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

2006-01-18 Thread Peter
--- Gable Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy List... I am trying to figure out if ipf is running for certain. FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE . I added the following to /etc/rc.conf : ipfilter_enable=YES ipmon_enable=YES ipmon_flags=-Dsvn ipnat_enable=YES ipfs_enable=YES I added a

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

2006-01-18 Thread Gable Barber
Yes, incorrectly, if you have any rules with the log key word, then you can se if you get any entries in your log files. I would have default rules first in my rule set: block log in all block log out all And then pass what I positively know is good. Cheers, Erik It seems

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

2006-01-18 Thread Gable Barber
On 1/18/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Switch over to pf. Why do you suggest PF over IPF? Hope I am not starting a war here.. but I am genuinely interested in the opinions. Gable ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

2006-01-18 Thread Peter
--- Gable Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/18/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Switch over to pf. Why do you suggest PF over IPF? All I can say is that I remember using ipf when I was on OpenBSD 2.9. At 3.0 it went to pf and ever since then I've been extremely pleased

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

2006-01-18 Thread Erik Norgaard
Gable Barber wrote: On 1/18/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Switch over to pf. Why do you suggest PF over IPF? Hope I am not starting a war here.. but I am genuinely interested in the opinions. I used IPF on FBSD until there was some bug in IPF for 5.x some version that forced me to

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

2006-01-18 Thread Gable Barber
On 1/18/06, Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gable Barber wrote: On 1/18/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Switch over to pf. Why do you suggest PF over IPF? Hope I am not starting a war here.. but I am genuinely interested in the opinions. I used IPF on FBSD until there

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

2006-01-18 Thread Peter
--- Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gable Barber wrote: On 1/18/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Switch over to pf. Why do you suggest PF over IPF? Hope I am not starting a war here.. but I am genuinely interested in the opinions. I used IPF on FBSD until there was