Re: Firewall config non-intuitiveness

2002-01-25 Thread Bob K
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 05:05:48PM -0800, Patrick Greenwell wrote: You know, I continue to be amazed at the attitude that says that things should be kept counter-intuitive and anyone who doesn't like it that way is ignorant. What possible benefit is there in perpetuating mislabeled

Re: Firewall config non-intuitiveness

2002-01-25 Thread Bob K
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 05:40:04PM -0800, Patrick Greenwell wrote: The problem is that you're not taking into account the installed base of users who twiddle this knob. How many angry firewall admins will come into being when the behaviour suddenly stops being, don't load any firewall

Re: Problem with Floppies in 4-STABLE?

2002-01-22 Thread Bob K
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 08:20:40AM -0500, Jason Stephenson wrote: The machine that doesn't see the floppy drive doesn't print the fd0: line. I'm wondering: has anything changed in the floppy code since Jan. 15th or is my floppy drive dead? You could always test the floppy by trying to

Re: serial console

2001-05-14 Thread Bob K
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Jason DiCioccio wrote: I've found the Portmaster 2E to be quite good at this too :).. For a single box, Telebit Netblazer LS'es work extremely well, with the added bonus that you can use DC 5V to power the thing instead of AC. I suppose someone will soon mention those

OpenSSH 2.1 compiling questions

2001-02-09 Thread Bob K
I'd like to start with the disclaimer that I'm not a programmer, and am stumbling through this with a very, very, very basic knowledge of C. If this is more appropriate for -questions, feel free to let me know. Here's the situation: I have a FreeBSD box running a 4.1-20001016-STABLE snapshot

Re: Firewall for the lazy???

2000-11-13 Thread Bob K
[cc: list trimmed] On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Lucas writes: : To the best of my knowledge, there are no "firewall for the lazy" : tools out there. Sorry. Wire cutters work well for that. It is 100% secure, but 100% useless :-) Heh.

Re: arp

2000-09-24 Thread Bob K
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Ted Sikora wrote: Bob K wrote: On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Ted Sikora wrote: Ok, here's a question: Is the MAC address of the ethernet card in your main server/gateway 00:10:b5:6c:33:83 ? (look at the output of ifconfig -a, or ipconfig /all if it's NT

Re: Transparent proxies and fetch

2000-05-25 Thread Bob K
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Steve Roome wrote: Then again, someone might have a better solution, but IMHO I think it's quite rude of ISP's to divert your traffic without letting you know about it, imagine how you'd feel if they started diverting all your outgoing port23 connections and archiving

Re: 4.0-STABLE dhcp conflicts.

2000-03-28 Thread Bob K
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, David Gilbert wrote: "Brian" == Brian Kraemer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian David Gilbert writes: It appears that when I run two (not sure if one does it) tcpdumps on the dhcp server, the dhcp clients don't get any responses to