Re: Firewall for the lazy???

2000-11-13 Thread Bob K
[cc: list trimmed] On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Michael Lucas writes: > : To the best of my knowledge, there are no "firewall for the lazy" > : tools out there. Sorry. > > Wire cutters work well for that. It is 100% secure, but 100% useless :-) Heh

OpenSSH 2.1 compiling questions

2001-02-09 Thread Bob K
I'd like to start with the disclaimer that I'm not a programmer, and am stumbling through this with a very, very, very basic knowledge of C. If this is more appropriate for -questions, feel free to let me know. Here's the situation: I have a FreeBSD box running a 4.1-20001016-STABLE snapshot (a

Re: serial console

2001-05-14 Thread Bob K
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Jason DiCioccio wrote: > I've found the Portmaster 2E to be quite good at this too :).. For a single box, Telebit Netblazer LS'es work extremely well, with the added bonus that you can use DC 5V to power the thing instead of AC. I suppose someone will soon mention those ser

Re: Problem with Floppies in 4-STABLE?

2002-01-22 Thread Bob K
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 08:20:40AM -0500, Jason Stephenson wrote: > > The machine that doesn't see the floppy drive doesn't print the fd0: line. > > I'm wondering: has anything changed in the floppy code since Jan. 15th > or is my floppy drive dead? You could always test the floppy by trying t

Re: Firewall config non-intuitiveness

2002-01-25 Thread Bob K
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 05:05:48PM -0800, Patrick Greenwell wrote: > > You know, I continue to be amazed at the attitude that says that things > should be kept counter-intuitive and anyone who doesn't like it that way > is ignorant. What possible benefit is there in perpetuating mislabeled > beha

Re: Firewall config non-intuitiveness

2002-01-25 Thread Bob K
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 05:40:04PM -0800, Patrick Greenwell wrote: > > > The problem is that you're not taking into account the installed base of > > users who twiddle this knob. How many angry firewall admins will come > > into being when the behaviour suddenly stops being, "don't load any > >

Re: 4.0-STABLE dhcp conflicts.

2000-03-28 Thread Bob K
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, David Gilbert wrote: > > "Brian" == Brian Kraemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Brian> in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Brian> David Gilbert writes: > >> It appears that when I run two (not sure if one does it) tcpdumps > >> on the dhcp server, the dhcp clients don't

Re: Transparent proxies and fetch

2000-05-25 Thread Bob K
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Steve Roome wrote: > Then again, someone might have a better solution, but IMHO I think > it's quite rude of ISP's to divert your traffic without letting you > know about it, imagine how you'd feel if they started diverting all > your outgoing port23 connections and archiving

Re: arp

2000-09-24 Thread Bob K
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Ted Sikora wrote: > Bob K wrote: > > > > On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Ted Sikora wrote: > > > > > > Ok, here's a question: Is the MAC address of the ethernet card in your > > > > main server/gateway 00:10:b5:6c:33:83 ? (look at t