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Hi, Two quick questions that I can't seem to find answers for using google. 1) is is possible to listen outside an ipfw firewall - that is have ethereal record the packets before ipfw starts dropping them? If so how? 2) Is there an api to ipfw that will let me manipulate rules, query stats etc? I need something faster than running the command line binary? Thanks John

We have been noticing flurries of sshd reject messages in which some system out there in the hinterlands hits us with a flood of ssh login attempts. An example: Apr 6 05:41:51 dc sshd[88763]: Did not receive identification string from 67.19.58.170 Apr 6 05:49:42 dc sshd[12389]: input_userauth_request: illegal user anonymous Apr 6 05:49:42 dc sshd[12389]: Failed password for illegal user

I have a FreeBSD box acting as a firewall and NAT gateway I would like to set it up to transparently pass IPSec packets -- I have an IPSec VPN client running on another machine, connecting to a remote network. Is there a way to do this? I can't find any hints in the man pages.