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In article <24393.1560893271@segfault.tristatelogic.com> you write:
>Why is /etc/rc.firewall even being executed?  I never explicitly asked for
>that, but that seems to just be a by-product of how things are arranged
>these days.... a by-product that I have no direct control over.

It's called from the shell script /etc/rc.d/ipfw so if you don't like what
it does, make it do something else.