Newbie firewall

[Nicolas]

Vikash Badal - PCS wrote:

>Greetings,
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Nicolas [mailto:nicolas.gafgo at bredband.net]
>>Sent: 02 February 2004 12:28
>>To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>>Subject: Newbie firewall
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>>Hope that somebody wants to waste some time on my question.
>>Many thanks Nicolas.
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>If you have a look at /etc/rc.firewall,
>under the [Cc][Ll][Ii][Ee][Nn][Tt]) config,
>you will see :
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>        # set these to your network and netmask and ip
>        net="192.0.2.0"
>        mask="255.255.255.0"
>        ip="192.0.2.1"
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>The firewall rules are based these values.
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>You could try replacing the net= ...  with the network address
>and ip=... with the word "me"
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>Vikash
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Hello. Thanks for responding. I have put all the right values in net, 
mask and  ip. It was working yesterday. But then I changed in rc.conf 
and this morning it did not work. It could be the changes in rc.conf ,  
the change in ip adress or both. I will try  to put ip=me.
Thanks again.
Nicolas