Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:04:48 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net> Subject: Re: IPFW and separate data files. Message-ID: <4BC32880.5050507@ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: <20100411115740.7bbf7f88@scorpio.seibercom.net> References: <20100411115740.7bbf7f88@scorpio.seibercom.net>
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On 2010.04.11 11:57, Jerry wrote: > I am using IPFW on a FreeBSD-7.3 machine. Presently, I am loading > several tables for IPFW. So far, I have just keep the data for the > tables in the actual "ipfw-rules" referenced in the 'rc.conf' file > itself. What I would like to do is keep the data for these tables in > separate files and just have them imported when the firewall is loaded. > I have constructed a simple script that is called from the 'ipfw-rules' > file. > > My question is if there is a better way of accomplishing this? Is there > a downside to doing this way? The data for these tables tends to be > dynamic and I would rather work with the separate files than edit the > master one and risk messing it up. I have a setup that is very similar to this. I 'include' the other files from the one referenced in /etc/rc.conf by adding lines like this: . /etc/ipfw.include Steve
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