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Date:      Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:25:36 +0100
From:      Mark Weinem <mark.weinem@uni-duisburg.de>
To:        FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ipfw enable firewall not working
Message-ID:  <20040323102536.GA13009@vigor10.my.domain>
In-Reply-To: <1079973514.615.53.camel@hammer.home>
References:  <1079973514.615.53.camel@hammer.home>

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On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Byron Schlemmer wrote:

> I'm having a problem enabling the ipfw firewall on RELENG-4.9 boxes
> cvsuped and installed today. Basically ipfw enable firewall leaves
> net.inet.ip.fw.enable set to 0 and the ipfw counters are not changing
> when I do a ipfw show, so the firewall is definitely not being loaded.
> Anyone else see this? Anyone have a fix? I have OPTIONS IPFW2 in the
> kernel and it's set to deny by default.

You need 
 
 	firewall_enable="YES"

in /etc/rc.conf

Ciao, Mark



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