Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 20:55:34 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> To: Nathan Mace <mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ipfw starts at boot-up Message-ID: <20011003045535.341EA8A@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> In-Reply-To: <20011002234121.27ffd120.mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu> References: <20011002234121.27ffd120.mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu>
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On Tuesday 02 October 2001 07:41 pm, Nathan Mace wrote:
> 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
Take the spaces out of these lines:
#firewall--ipfw
firewall_enable = "NO" <------------
firewall_script="/etc/rc.firewall"
firewall_type = "/root/ipfw.rules" <------------
firewall_quiet = "YES" <------------
log_in_vain = "YES" <---------------------
firewall_logging_enable = "YES"
icmp_drop_redirect = "YES" <-----------------
Beech
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