Ping response: sendto: Permission denied

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 11:48:51 -0400
Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net> wrote:

> At 11:06 AM 05/10/2003, Brunoc at quipo.it wrote:
> 
> 
> >'ipfw show' output:
> >65535 14 1068 deny ip from any to any
> 
> ipfw show is telling you that you have one firewall rule which denys
> 
> everything from everything-- hence when you ping anything you get
> the error.  You should add to /etc/rc.conf
> 
> firewall_enable="YES"        # Set to YES to enable firewall
> # Which script to run to set up the firewall
> functionality firewall_script="/etc/rc.firewall" firewall_type="OPEN"            #
> Firewall type (see /etc/rc.firewall) firewall_quiet="NO"            
> # Set to YES to suppress rule display firewall_logging="YES"        
>  # Set to YES to enable events logging

I would rather suggest an 
firewall_type="CLIENT" 
even on dial-up.

see in /etc/rc.firewall the section beginning with
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IOnut
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