I have a fairly restrictive ipfw setup on a FBSD 8.2-STABLE machine. Pings were not getting through so I added this near the top of the rule set:
##### # Allow icmp ##### ${FWCMD} add allow icmp from any to any It does work but, two questions: 1) Is there a better way? 2) Will this cause harm or otherwise expose the server to some vulnerability? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"