From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Mar 25 20:24:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A541E37B943 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 20:24:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA35600; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 23:24:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 23:24:26 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Doug Barton Cc: Tom Legg , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Minor rc.network bug for 4.0 and ipfw In-Reply-To: <38DD8E7B.CA0781BD@gorean.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Doug Barton wrote: >Tom Legg wrote: > >> In fact the current situation renders the rc.conf flag for >> firewall_enable mute. You might as well eliminate the flag and have >> /etc/rc.network check whether net.inet.ip.fw.enable=1 and go from >> there. > > I think you mean moot. :) In any case, the current set of options >allows a user to specify the settings in rc.conf without compiling the >ipfw stuff into the kernel. > >Doug No, actually mute is appropriate. firewall_enable is not allowed to express itself if ipfw is compiled in. Even when firewall_enable is explicitly set to "NO", as it is in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, it's voice is not heard and net.inet.ip.fw.enable is set true. Not saying anything about the merits of either default setup, just that mute is an appropriate adjective. ------------------------------------------------------------- | -Brandon D. Valentine bandix at looksharp.net | bandix on EFnet IRC BVRiker on AIM ------------------------------------------------------------- | "...and as for hackers, we note that all of those known to | The Register are so strapped financially that seizing their | property would be tantamount to squeezing blood from a | stone." -- The Register, 02/17/2000 ------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message