Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Windows XP - PROBLEM SOLVED

2003-08-01 Thread James A. Coulter
- Original Message - From: Jud [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED]; James A. Coulter [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 8:01 AM Subject: Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Windows XP - PROBLEM On Fri

Re: IPFW - How to allow NAT client to CVSup

2005-01-17 Thread James A. Coulter
from 127.0.0.0/8 to any $cmd 65000 allow ip from any to any $cmd 65535 deny log all ip from any to any This ruleset allows me establish passive ftp from any machine behind the firewall, including accomplishing CVSUP. So far I haven't had any problems with security. HTH Jim Coulter -- James

Found This In /usr - @LongLink

2005-03-03 Thread James A. Coulter
of my neck standup. Is this normal? If so, what the heck is it? Or have I been rooted? Thanks! Jim -- James A. Coulter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jacoulter.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Found This In /usr - @LongLink

2005-03-04 Thread James A. Coulter
a newbie, *nix is still a very strange and wonderous creature to me, and sometimes in my excitement I forget my mailing list ettiquette. To all the other newbies out there: Google and the FreeBSD handbook are our best friends. Jim -- James A. Coulter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jacoulter.net

NEWBIE: Logging into Cox Cable service

2004-07-11 Thread James A. Coulter
I am running FreeBSD 4.10 and am trying to connect to my Cox ISP via a an Ethernet nic and cable modem. I have DHCP for the nic enabled in /etc/rc.conf and can obtain an IP address from my Windows 98 gateway, but when I connect the nic to the cable modem and reboot I do not get a response from

SOLVED: NEWBIE: Logging into Cox Cable service

2004-07-12 Thread James A. Coulter
to happen is that the cable modem itself latches on (so to speak) to the MAC address of the nic you're using. Usually, all that is required is to power cycle the cable modem and it should see the new nic and you'll be able to get your DHCP response. HTH. On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 10:10:41 -0500, James

RE: I downloaded everything to no avail! ISO's fail to burn

2004-07-12 Thread James A. Coulter
Your cd burner software should have an option to create a cd from an image. This is different than just copying files to a bland cd-rom. Look in the 'File' drop-down menu. Don't feel bad - I made the same mistake and posted the same question on this board about two years ago. P.S. Google is

NEWBIE: FreeBSD 4.10 Internet gateway/DNS problem

2004-07-13 Thread James A. Coulter
I am trying to setup my FreeBSD 4.10 box as an internet gateway for a small home LAN (2x Win XP and 1x Win 98SE) The LAN operates without any problems when using the Win 98SE box as a gateway - all computers can access the internet I have two nics installed in the FreeBSD box: dc0 is

SOLVED: NEWBIE: FreeBSD 4.10 Internet gateway/DNS problem

2004-07-22 Thread James A. Coulter
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:51:21AM -0500, James A. Coulter wrote: I am trying to setup my FreeBSD 4.10 box as an internet gateway for a small home LAN (2x Win XP and 1x Win 98SE) The LAN operates without any problems when using the Win 98SE box as a gateway - all computers can

DHCP and the SIMPLE option in /etc/rc.firewall

2004-07-30 Thread James A. Coulter
I am setting up a firewall for a gateway/router running FreeBSD 4.10. This is for a small home LAN. I have already compiled and installed a custom kernel with the IPFIREWALL and IPDIVERT options and configured the firewall to pass any to any without any problems - now it's time to start locking

RE: DHCP and the SIMPLE option in /etc/rc.firewall

2004-07-30 Thread James A. Coulter
Thanks - I'm going to give the Stateful + NATD rule set a try. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JJB Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 8:20 AM To: James A. Coulter; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: DHCP and the SIMPLE option in /etc

Firewall Rule Set not allowing access to DNS servers?

2004-07-30 Thread James A. Coulter
I am using FreeBSD 4.10 as a gateway/router for a small home LAN. My outside interface (dc1) is connected to a cable modem and is configured for DHCP. I have compiled and installed a custome kernel with IPFIREWALL and IPDIVERT options and with a rule set allowing any to any with no problems I

RE: Firewall Rule Set not allowing access to DNS servers?

2004-07-31 Thread James A. Coulter
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JJB Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 1:20 PM To: James A. Coulter; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Firewall Rule Set not allowing access to DNS servers? Change this ipfw rule from 5 allow ip from any to any via xl0 To 5 allow ip from any

RE: Firewall Rule Set not allowing access to DNS servers?

2004-07-31 Thread James A. Coulter
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James A. Coulter Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 9:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Firewall Rule Set not allowing access to DNS servers? Thanks for the response. . . I changed rule 5 from x10 to dc0 - thanks

RE: Firewall Rule Set not allowing access to DNS servers?

2004-08-01 Thread James A. Coulter
To: James A. Coulter; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Firewall Rule Set not allowing access to DNS servers? Look back at the ipfw sample rule set and you will see that there are both udp and tcp protocol access to DSN. Also not that udp does not use setup keyword. # Allow out access to my ISP's

Newbie Security Question

2004-08-06 Thread James A. Coulter
I recently got my firewall up and configured (many thanks to JJB and everyone else for their help) and have been reading the daily security message from root with a great deal of interest. My question is, when I see entries like this: Aug 5 17:55:54 sara sshd[2099]: Failed password for root

Security Log Question

2004-08-08 Thread James A. Coulter
Checked /var/log/security this morning and found these entries: Aug 4 09:00:45 sara /kernel: ipfw: limit 10 reached on entry 500 Aug 5 07:45:38 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 5 17:54:32 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 5 17:55:55 sara last message repeated 9

Security log question

2004-08-11 Thread James A. Coulter
This message has been showing up in /var/log/security: Aug 6 01:56:44 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 6 16:40:05 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 7 13:25:23 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 7 15:32:00 sara

Re: Security log question

2004-08-14 Thread James A. Coulter
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 04:39:58PM +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:46:47PM -0500, James A. Coulter wrote: This message has been showing up in /var/log/security: Aug 6 01:56:44 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 6 16:40:05 sara /kernel

Security question - uids of 0

2004-08-16 Thread James A. Coulter
The following appeared in my latest daily security run output: Checking for uids of 0: root 0 toor 0 This is the first time I've seen this message. I checked /etc/passwd and found this: root:*:0:0:Charlie :/root:/bin/csh toor:*:0:0:Bourne-again

Re: Security question - uids of 0

2004-08-16 Thread James A. Coulter
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 05:01:51PM +0200, Volker Kindermann wrote: Hi James, The following appeared in my latest daily security run output: Checking for uids of 0: root 0 toor 0 This is the first time I've seen this message. I checked /etc/passwd and found

Re: problem with getway

2004-08-18 Thread James A. Coulter
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 03:36:31PM +0800, AETCH wrote: I have install freebsd 4.x,and have two netcards. I want it as getway. I have config gateway_enable=YES in rc.conf,and then reboot. [a pc][freebsd]---[b pc] After reboot , I try to use a pc to ping b pc ,it`s not work ,but a

Re: Nightly cron message question

2004-08-18 Thread James A. Coulter
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:04:48AM -0500, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Jason Lieurance wrote: Hello, Late couple days on our Freebsd 4.7 email/web server I've got this message in the nightly cron jobs: Checking setuid files and devices: Checking for uids of 0: root 0

Help with IPFW + NATD + Passive FTP

2004-11-28 Thread James A. Coulter
nfs_server_enable=YES sendmail_enable=NONE sshd_enable=YES usbd_enable=YES ntpd_enable=YES inetd_enable=YES gateway_enable=YES natd_enable=YES natd_interface=dc1 natd_flags=-dynamic apache_enable=YES -- James A. Coulter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jacoulter.net

Re: -stable

2004-12-19 Thread James A. Coulter
4.11-STABLE itself (scheduled date is 24 January 2005 - release schedule here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.11R/schedule.html) HTH Jim -- James A. Coulter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jacoulter.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: -stable CORRECTION

2004-12-19 Thread James A. Coulter
James A. Coulter wrote: Paul wrote: hi, i currently installed 4.10-release and cvsup to get -stable but it gave me 4.11-prelease is there a current tag that allow me to get 4.10-stable? regards, paul The same thing happened to me. After some googling, I found this: RELENG_4 marks the 4-STABLE