On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Daniel Bye wrote: >On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:18:33PM +0000, Daniel Bye wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:45:09AM -0500, Stephen D. Kingrea wrote: >> > running 4.7 with firewall, natd enabled kernel. i wish to create firewall >> > rules outside of the rc.firewall script that remain static across >> > reboots. to that end, i created a set (rc.firewall.rules), pointing >> > rc.conf to that set: >> > >> > firewall_enable="YES" >> > firewall_type="/etc/rc.firewall.rules" >> >> You should change "firewall_type" to "firewall_script". You should then >> find all works as you want. > >Well, almost... If you do it this way, you need to make sure the script >file is executable and makes sense as a shell script. I use something >like > >#!/bin/sh >IPFW=/sbin/ipfw >${IPFW} -f flush >${IPFW} add 100 allow ip from any to any via lo0 >... etc. > >It works well for me. > >Dan > yes, that worked quite well. thank you for that nugget!
i should say that joebs' suggestions concerning ipfilter are worthy of investigation. i really just needed this to be able to ftp files from inside my lan without having to retype rules at every boot. thanks! stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message