From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 2 21: 6:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linus.highpoint.edu (linus.highpoint.edu [192.154.46.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12FBF37B401 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 21:06:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from zhartley@localhost) by linus.highpoint.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f9345aM09088 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 00:05:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 00:05:36 -0400 From: Zach Hartley To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: ipfw starts at boot-up Message-ID: <20011003000536.C8905@linus.highpoint.edu> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions References: <20011002234121.27ffd120.mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011002234121.27ffd120.mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu>; from mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu on Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:41:21PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, one (very ghetto) way of getting around that would be this: add the following to rc.local ipfw flush ipfw add allow ip from any to any its what i use when i don't feel like monkeying around with the firewall. hth Zach Around Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:41:21PM -0400, Nathan Mace thus spake the following: > i just compiled my kernel to include ipfw support....installed > it..restarted....it's 11:30PM here...the firewall is just a pet project > that i'm running on my personal machine...it can wait a few days. it's > set by default to deny all....i got it opened up enough to sent mail and > get on the net(duh or you wouldn't be reading this)....but my question > is....according to 'man rc.conf" i can add some options to the > /etc/rc.conf file like whether or not to start the firewall when the OS > boots...eventually i'll want it to..but not until i get it configured. > so i set that to no..and a few other options then i rebooted > > when it boots up is says that firewall_enable = "NO" is not a valid > command...basically along the lines that it doesn't know what to do with > it. what am i doing wrong? none of the options i entered concerning > the firewall to rc.conf file work...they all say what the 1st one does. > i've attached my rc.conf file...can someone look at it and maybe tell me > what i'm doing wrong? i found some doc's at www.onlamp.com and thats > what they do as well.....what do i do? > > thanks > nathan -- Zachary Todd Hartley "Attempted murder. Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?" --Sideshow Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message