RE: Please Help with Confusion about ipfw rules.

2007-07-27 Thread fbsd2
with Confusion about ipfw rules. This is a situation where I thought I knew more than I actually do. I set up a new domain name server with a client-type firewall after having tested it first, but there is nothing like hundreds of thousands of packets per hour to show the weak spots. I made

Please Help with Confusion about ipfw rules. Solved.

2007-07-27 Thread Martin McCormick
fbsd2 writes: I use the sample ipfw rules with keep state as shown in the handbook they do work fine. They just aren't meant for the kind of load they were under. I needed to know how to get the same functionality by other means. If you use the keep-state directive, high traffic can

Please Help with Confusion about ipfw rules.

2007-07-26 Thread Martin McCormick
This is a situation where I thought I knew more than I actually do. I set up a new domain name server with a client-type firewall after having tested it first, but there is nothing like hundreds of thousands of packets per hour to show the weak spots. I made the mistake of setting