Re: Firewall

2007-04-30 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Tue, May 01, 2007 at 11:31:58AM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: >0n Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:58:18AM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: > >>One of the big selling points of IPFW is integration with DUMMYNET, which >>offers bandwidth management facilities not present in

Re: Firewall

2007-04-30 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:58:18AM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: >One of the big selling points of IPFW is integration with DUMMYNET, which >offers bandwidth management facilities not present in the other systems. I >understand there may be efforts afoot to add DUMMYNET support

Re: kern/108211: [netinet] potentially a bug for inet_aton in sys/netinet/libalias/alias_proxy.c

2007-04-30 Thread Maxim Konovalov
Synopsis: [netinet] potentially a bug for inet_aton in sys/netinet/libalias/alias_proxy.c State-Changed-From-To: open->patched State-Changed-By: maxim State-Changed-When: Mon Apr 30 20:22:26 UTC 2007 State-Changed-Why: Fixed in HEAD. Thanks! Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-net->maxim Res

Re: Why can't I sendto() to 127.255.255.255

2007-04-30 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Abraham K. Mathen wrote: Is it possible to successfully sendto() on a UDP socket with 127.255.255.255 as the destination address? If yes, how can that be done. No, because in FreeBSD, lo(4) is not implemented as a broadcast interface. It is a multicast capable software loopback interface. I

Re: Why can't I sendto() to 127.255.255.255

2007-04-30 Thread Vince
Abraham K. Mathen wrote: > NOTE : A copy of this message was sent to freebsd-hackers also. > Apologies for the separate mails. > > Hello freebsd-net, > I wrote a short program (on FreeBSD 6.0), that attempts > to call sendto() on a UDP socket, with 127.255.255.255 as > the destination a

Re: Firewall

2007-04-30 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2007-Apr-30 10:58:18 +0100, Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One of the big selling points of IPFW is integration with DUMMYNET, which offers bandwidth management facilities not present in the other systems. I thought altq(4) could also do

Re: Firewall

2007-04-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-Apr-30 10:58:18 +0100, Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >One of the big selling points of IPFW is integration with DUMMYNET, which >offers bandwidth management facilities not present in the other systems. I thought altq(4) could also do most of what dummynet(4) does but based on a

Current problem reports assigned to you

2007-04-30 Thread FreeBSD bugmaster
Current FreeBSD problem reports Critical problems Serious problems S Tracker Resp. Description a kern/38554 netchanging interface ipaddress doesn't seem to work s kern/39937 netipstealth

Why can't I sendto() to 127.255.255.255

2007-04-30 Thread Abraham K. Mathen
NOTE : A copy of this message was sent to freebsd-hackers also. Apologies for the separate mails. Hello freebsd-net, I wrote a short program (on FreeBSD 6.0), that attempts to call sendto() on a UDP socket, with 127.255.255.255 as the destination address. It failed - with errno 49 (EAD

Re: Firewall

2007-04-30 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2007-Apr-28 07:08:18 -0500, Jack Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I plan on using NAT so both internal networks can get to the internets. In the FreeBSD documentation I see there are 3 firewalls, IPFIREWALL, IPFILTER and PF (BF?). I just need to