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Date:      Sun, 27 Jan 2002 11:51:33 -0600
From:      jacks@sage-american.com
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
Cc:        cjc@FreeBSD.ORG, nate@yogotech.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Firewall config non-intuitiveness
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.20020127115133.01831ca0@mail.sage-american.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020127.102748.70374201.imp@village.org>
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The reason I mentioned leaving the FW rule loading out of the boot process,
I too have some things that at the moment cause problems loading some other
things with the rules in there. So after enough of that, I now start the FW
right after booting... of course hoping I don't forget to load the rules at
the moment bootup finishes.... BUT, of course I don't boot very often and
flush/reload the FW rules more often.... especially if I need to tweak a rule.

At 10:27 AM 1.27.2002 -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>In message: <3.0.5.32.20020127075816.01831ca0@mail.sage-american.com>
>            jacks@sage-american.com writes:
>: What would be wrong with booting without loading a FW script and then
>: loading the rules after the boot is finished...???
>
>Right now what I have works.  You are changing the semantics of a
>security related feature of the system in such a way that after this
>change what I have will not work.  I agree that your work around will
>allow me to easily correct things.  However, if I fail to do so, I
>open my firewall up completely.  To me, that's an unacceptible change
>in the API.
>
>Warner
>
>

Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Server Admin

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