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From: harverso@aztec.co.za (Tony Harverson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IPFORWARDING on FreeBSD2.0
Date: 31 Aug 1995 11:19:58 GMT
Organization: Connectivity
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Message-ID: <harverso-3108951322480001@harverso.aztec.co.za>
References: <420cdv$ne0@mippet.ci.com.au>
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In article <420cdv$ne0@mippet.ci.com.au>, Ferry Winarta
<ferryw@softplus.com.au> wrote:

>  This is my second time, post the same subject. I got no reply for the 
>  first time, so I think, I will try for the second time.
> 
>  I tried to control my FreeBSD box, to allow access from internal network
>  to external only. I have 2 network cards in it.
> 
>  I compiled kernel, to include GATEWAY, IPFIREWALL, IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE.
> 
>  Then I tried to telnet from internal host, to external host. It failed,
>  with timeout.
> 
>  I would like to know, do I need telnetd to listen on port 23, to enable 
>  ipforwarding or not.
> 
>  Any suggestions , please
Hi There Ferry,

Have you read man ipfw ? It might give you a clue as to why things are not
working....

on another note, how does one specify a range of ports for ipfw ? I want
to allow from ports 1000 to 1700 and I don't want to type them out - the
standard 1000..1700 doesn't seem to work :(

TOny