With the putback of PSARC 2008/580 Solaris host-based firewall, some of 
our changes to the network/ipfilter service have created design conflicts.

We added config/*_config_file properties to specify the configurations 
files.  Previously, these were hardcoded in the service's script. 

But, host-based firewall added new properties to network/ipfilter.  
Among other things, specifying our ipf.conf file (e.g for Automatic and 
NoNet) requires setting the policy to "custom" and specifying the 
ipf.conf file to the custom_policy_file.  I think the policies for 
Automatic and NoNet can be specified without custom ipf.conf files (need 
to do some reading on this).  The other properties are still hard-coded.

I am not able to find emails/discussions that decided on using the 
config/*_config_file properties in network/ipfilter.  I only see this 
[1] thread, that talks about locations and security policy, but nothing 
about the four properties we added.  Does anything else change for us 
with the introduction of host-based firewalls?

Thanks,
Anurag

[1] http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=300470


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