Re: -E flag in /etc/rc.d/ipfilter causes warnings

2003-06-17 Thread Fred Souza
I believe it's harmless, and while not aesthetically pleasing, it's a necessary work-around. The stop command to rc.d/ipfilter uses -D to disable ipfilter, so it's necessary to use -E with the start command because there's no way to know how/when/why/in-what-environment it's being called. If

-E flag in /etc/rc.d/ipfilter causes warnings

2003-06-16 Thread Mike Bohan
Hello there, I recently ran into a slight issue with ipfilter running on 5.1-RELEASE. My machine serves the simple purpose as a nat gateway, so ipfilter is always going to be necessary on it. Due to this fact, i decided to include options IPFILTER in the kernel config, instead of

Re: -E flag in /etc/rc.d/ipfilter causes warnings

2003-06-16 Thread Mike Makonnen
On 16 Jun 2003 21:35:44 -0400 Mike Bohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello there, I recently ran into a slight issue with ipfilter running on 5.1-RELEASE. My machine serves the simple purpose as a nat gateway, so ipfilter is always going to be necessary on it. Due to this fact, i

Re: -E flag in /etc/rc.d/ipfilter causes warnings

2003-06-16 Thread Mike Bohan
That's actually how I interpreted the man page too (the way you did), but rc.conf says the inverse, and my testing corresponds to this as well... ipfilter_flags= # should be *empty* when ipf is _not_ a module # (i.e. compiled into the kernel) to