I immediately found several plausible examples of what to put in the firewall rules file and the following rules were set just after the local loopback address:
ip="139.78.2.13" setup_loopback # Allow traceroute to function, but not to get in. ${fwcmd} add unreach port udp from any to ${ip} 33435-33524 # Allow some inbound icmps - echo reply, dest unreach, source quench, # echo, ttl exceeded. ${fwcmd} add allow icmp from any to any icmptypes 0,3,4,8,11 My thanks to previous posters for these rules. I still, however only get *traceroute: sendto: Permission denied traceroute: wrote 192.168.1.125 52 chars, ret=-1 I also did try: sysctl net.inet.udp.blackhole=0 then 1 and even 2 with no change. What else should I look at? The firewall rules are otherwise working as they should. Thank you. Martin McCormick _______________________________________________ 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"