From owner-freebsd-ipfw Tue Jul 3 9:54:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F58F37B403 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 09:54:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id TAA00391; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 19:03:27 +0200 Message-ID: <3B41F947.8B9EE0E5@i-clue.de> Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 18:56:39 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jonathan M. Slivko" Cc: freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: all blocked. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jonathan M. Slivko" schrieb: > > Hello, > > I just installed ipfw on my machine, only to find that it automatically > blocked all communication with the internet. Can you guys please tell me > how to either fix it, or turn off the firewall totally. Read /etc/rc.firewall. In /etc/rc.firewall, edit the interface definitions for your firewall type. In /etc/rc.conf, add the lines firewall_enable="YES" # "NO" will turn off the firewall firewall_type="client" # protect this machine only # ("simple" would protect a simple network, "open" would protect nothing) HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message