NEWBIE: Logging into Cox Cable service

2004-07-11 Thread James A. Coulter
I am running FreeBSD 4.10 and am trying to connect to my Cox ISP via a an Ethernet nic and cable modem. I have DHCP for the nic enabled in /etc/rc.conf and can obtain an IP address from my Windows 98 gateway, but when I connect the nic to the cable modem and reboot I do not get a response from the

SOLVED: NEWBIE: Logging into Cox Cable service

2004-07-12 Thread James A. Coulter
>>On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 10:10:41 -0500, James A. Coulter >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am running FreeBSD 4.10 and am trying to connect to my Cox ISP via a an >> Ethernet nic and cable modem. >> >> I have DHCP for the nic enabled in /etc/rc.conf and can

RE: I downloaded everything to no avail! ISO's fail to burn

2004-07-12 Thread James A. Coulter
Your cd burner software should have an option to create a cd from an image. This is different than just copying files to a bland cd-rom. Look in the 'File' drop-down menu. Don't feel bad - I made the same mistake and posted the same question on this board about two years ago. P.S. Google is your

NEWBIE: FreeBSD 4.10 Internet gateway/DNS problem

2004-07-13 Thread James A. Coulter
I am trying to setup my FreeBSD 4.10 box as an internet gateway for a small home LAN (2x Win XP and 1x Win 98SE) The LAN operates without any problems when using the Win 98SE box as a gateway - all computers can access the internet I have two nics installed in the FreeBSD box: dc0 is the

SOLVED: NEWBIE: FreeBSD 4.10 Internet gateway/DNS problem

2004-07-22 Thread James A. Coulter
> > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:51:21AM -0500, James A. Coulter wrote: > > > > > >I am trying to setup my FreeBSD 4.10 box as an internet gateway for a > > > small home LAN (2x Win XP and 1x Win 98SE) > > > > > >The LAN operates without any pro

DHCP and the "SIMPLE" option in /etc/rc.firewall

2004-07-30 Thread James A. Coulter
I am setting up a firewall for a gateway/router running FreeBSD 4.10. This is for a small home LAN. I have already compiled and installed a custom kernel with the IPFIREWALL and IPDIVERT options and configured the firewall to pass any to any without any problems - now it's time to start locking i

RE: DHCP and the "SIMPLE" option in /etc/rc.firewall

2004-07-30 Thread James A. Coulter
Thanks - I'm going to give the Stateful + NATD rule set a try. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JJB > Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 8:20 AM > To: James A. Coulter; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: DHCP and the

Firewall Rule Set not allowing access to DNS servers?

2004-07-30 Thread James A. Coulter
I am using FreeBSD 4.10 as a gateway/router for a small home LAN. My outside interface (dc1) is connected to a cable modem and is configured for DHCP. I have compiled and installed a custome kernel with IPFIREWALL and IPDIVERT options and with a rule set allowing any to any with no problems I am

RE: Firewall Rule Set not allowing access to DNS servers?

2004-07-31 Thread James A. Coulter
--- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JJB > Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 1:20 PM > To: James A. Coulter; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Firewall Rule Set not allowing access to DNS servers? > > > Change this ipfw rule from > > 5

RE: Firewall Rule Set not allowing access to DNS servers?

2004-07-31 Thread James A. Coulter
on isa0 sio1: type 16550A ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/9 bytes threshold plip0: on ppbus0 lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: on ppbus0 IP packet filtering initialized, divert enabled, rule-

RE: Firewall Rule Set not allowing access to DNS servers?

2004-08-01 Thread James A. Coulter
8 PM > To: James A. Coulter; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Firewall Rule Set not allowing access to DNS servers? > > > Look back at the ipfw sample rule set and you will see that > there are both udp and tcp protocol access to DSN. Also not > that udp does not use setup ke

Newbie Security Question

2004-08-06 Thread James A. Coulter
I recently got my firewall up and configured (many thanks to JJB and everyone else for their help) and have been reading the daily security message from root with a great deal of interest. My question is, when I see entries like this: Aug 5 17:55:54 sara sshd[2099]: Failed password for root fr

Security Log Question

2004-08-08 Thread James A. Coulter
Checked /var/log/security this morning and found these entries: Aug 4 09:00:45 sara /kernel: ipfw: limit 10 reached on entry 500 Aug 5 07:45:38 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 5 17:54:32 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 5 17:55:55 sara last message repeated 9 t

Re: -stable

2004-12-19 Thread James A. Coulter
EASE and will soon become 4.11-STABLE itself (scheduled date is 24 January 2005 - release schedule here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.11R/schedule.html) HTH Jim -- James A. Coulter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jacoulter.net ___ [EMAIL PRO

Re: -stable CORRECTION

2004-12-19 Thread James A. Coulter
James A. Coulter wrote: Paul wrote: hi, i currently installed 4.10-release and cvsup to get -stable but it gave me 4.11-prelease is there a current tag that allow me to get 4.10-stable? regards, paul The same thing happened to me. After some googling, I found this: "RELENG_4 marks the 4-S

Re: IPFW - How to allow NAT client to CVSup

2005-01-17 Thread James A. Coulter
d any problems with security. HTH Jim Coulter -- James A. Coulter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jacoulter.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Found This In /usr - @LongLink

2005-03-03 Thread James A. Coulter
of my neck standup. Is this normal? If so, what the heck is it? Or have I been rooted? Thanks! Jim -- James A. Coulter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jacoulter.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Found This In /usr - @LongLink

2005-03-04 Thread James A. Coulter
I'm a newbie, *nix is still a very strange and wonderous creature to me, and sometimes in my excitement I forget my mailing list ettiquette. To all the other newbies out there: Google and the FreeBSD handbook are our best friends. Jim -- James A. Coulter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jac

Security log question

2004-08-11 Thread James A. Coulter
This message has been showing up in /var/log/security: Aug 6 01:56:44 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 6 16:40:05 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 7 13:25:23 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 7 15:32:00 sara /kerne

Re: Security log question

2004-08-14 Thread James A. Coulter
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 04:39:58PM +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:46:47PM -0500, James A. Coulter wrote: > > This message has been showing up in /var/log/security: > > > > Aug 6 01:56:44 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries > &g

Security question - uids of 0

2004-08-16 Thread James A. Coulter
The following appeared in my latest daily security run output: Checking for uids of 0: root 0 toor 0 This is the first time I've seen this message. I checked /etc/passwd and found this: root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh toor:*:0:0:Bourne-again Superuser

Re: Security question - uids of 0

2004-08-16 Thread James A. Coulter
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 05:01:51PM +0200, Volker Kindermann wrote: > Hi James, > > > > The following appeared in my latest daily security run output: > > > > Checking for uids of 0: > > root 0 > > toor 0 > > > > This is the first time I've seen this message. > > > > I checked /etc/

Re: problem with getway

2004-08-18 Thread James A. Coulter
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 03:36:31PM +0800, AETCH wrote: > I have install freebsd 4.x,and have two netcards. > I want it as getway. > I have config "gateway_enable=YES" in rc.conf,and then reboot. > [a pc][freebsd]---[b pc] > After reboot , I try to use a pc to ping b pc ,it`s not work ,

Re: Nightly cron message question

2004-08-18 Thread James A. Coulter
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:04:48AM -0500, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > Jason Lieurance wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >Late couple days on our Freebsd 4.7 email/web server I've got this message > >in the > >nightly cron jobs: > > > > > >Checking setuid files and devices: > > > >Checking for u

Re: Web browsing

2004-09-06 Thread James A. Coulter
On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 10:27:43PM -0400, Douglas wrote: > Um, I know this is going to sound stupid, but I am completely dumbfounded >as to how I can runa web browser in FreeBSD. I got so frustrated that I >didn't know how to use FreeBSD and the fact that Elmira is a Windows city >was completely

Help with IPFW + NATD + Passive FTP

2004-11-28 Thread James A. Coulter
.0" firewall_enable="YES" firewall_script="/etc/ipfw.rules" firewall_logging="YES" kern_securelevel_enable="NO" linux_enable="YES" moused_enable="YES" named_enable="YES" nfs_client_enable="YES" nfs_reserved_port_only="YES&q

Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Windows XP - PROBLEM SOLVED

2003-08-01 Thread James A. Coulter
- Original Message - From: "Jud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John DeStefano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "James A. Coulter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "freebsd-questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, Au