[CS-FSLUG] Firewall fights

Ed Hurst ehurst at asisaid.com
Wed Jan 25 07:50:17 CST 2006


Ed Hurst wrote:

> Here's the deal: We have a DSL modem with four ports and wireless 
> capability. SBC treats their DSL customers as one big LAN group. Our IP 
> assignments via DHCP are 192.168.1.64 - 192.168.1.67. Our DNS comes in 
> via 192.168.1.254. The DSL modem has a wimpy firewall built in, and I 
> know from running FreeBSD it works, based on the logs. SBC claims to 
> filter some things at their gateway, too. Right now, I have the firewall 
> turned off.

I figured out how to run firestarter in active mode, so that I can see 
when the firewall is too zealous and make adjustments. This may suffice.


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Ed Hurst
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