On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Jason Williams wrote: > I'm using FBSD 4.7 and have compiled ipfw into the kernel. My rc.conf > file has the following: > > firewall_enable="YES" > firewall_script="/etc/rc.firewall" > firewall_type="/etc/ipfw.rules" > firewall_quiet="NO" > firewall_logging_enable="YES" > log_in_vain="YES" > icmp_drop_redirect="YES"
all you need to do, is to put your list of ipfw ... statements into your /etc/ipfw.rules and make it executable by # chmod 750 /etc/ipfw.rules and they will be executed on bootup. The line firewall_type="/etc/ipfw.rules" in your rc.conf is not necessary. Uli. > > On reboot, ipfw is not reading rc.firewall before loading my rules - > /etc/ipfw.rules - as I've assumed it would. I thought I could let > rc.firewall take care of housekeeping ( flush and loopback rules ) > before moving on to the the custom rules in ipfw.rules. Am I missing > something here or is it normal to bypass rc.firewall altogether and set > up a rules file with everything needed in there? All the tutorials seem > to suggest that ipfw reads rc.firewall first before moving onto custom > rules files, but that has not been my experience here. Thanks for your > help > > Jason Williams > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > +-----------------------------------+ | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | | - Wuppertal - | | Germany | +-----------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message