ipfilter netboot problems

2003-06-24 Thread randall ehren
hi, i'm setting up a soekris net4501 machine and during some testing i ran into a problem. basically, if i compile: options IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK into the kernel then i get the following error during a net boot (pxe): nfs send error 65 for xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/soekris/ and then the machi

Re: default route

2003-01-05 Thread randall ehren
> > how can i assign the default gateway to use fxp0 instead? > > route delete default > route add default A.B.C.D i read the man page, it indicated the use of the -inteface flag but i could not get it to work. doing what you say did not fix the problem either: as you described: root@fw-1[~]%

default route

2003-01-05 Thread randall ehren
hi, i have a freebsd box acting as a firewall using ipfilter over a bridge. the machine has two interfaces: fxp0 = connected to outside world interface rl0 = connected to internal subnet when i add the default gateway, it defaults to assigning it to rl0. from netstat -rn: Destination

Re: redundant firewall + vpn server howto

2002-12-21 Thread randall ehren
> > http://isber.ucsb.edu/~randall/firewall/redundant/ > > Cold failover, right? Existing PPTP sessions aren't taken over > by the second machine if the first goes down, right? correct. if a machine dies freevrrpd simply reassigns the slave machine to the virtual IP/MAC, in which case a new PPTP

redundant firewall + vpn server howto

2002-12-20 Thread randall ehren
it's a bit of a work-in-progress, but if anyone is interested in setting up freebsd as a bridging ipfilter firewall + pptp vpn server, in rc.diskless2 mode, along with the option of having a redundant failover machine: http://isber.ucsb.edu/~randall/firewall/redundant/ despite the complexity at

Re: concurrent connections

2002-12-05 Thread randall ehren
> netstat -n |grep EST |wc -l thank you. let me make the grain a little bit finer: i have a freebsd box acting as a IPFilter bridge for a class c subnet - is there any way i can view how many concurrent connections this machine is handling? netstat -s returns: root@fw[~]% netstat -s tcp:

concurrent connections

2002-12-05 Thread randall ehren
hi, is there a simple way to measure the amount of concurrent network (tcp) connections to a freebsd host? also, not exactly related to freebsd, but is there a way to measure the amount of concurrent connections while running ipfilter on the host? thanks, -- :// randall s. ehren

Re: Cjc's Ipfilter/Bridge patch

2002-12-04 Thread randall ehren
> I'd like to know whether the ipf/bridge patch located at : > http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ > > could be merged in the tree (-current then MFC) ? hasn't it been merged? root@heat[~]% uname -a FreeBSD fw.redigital.org 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #1: Tue Nov 26 19:42:57 PST 2002 [EMAIL PRO