From owner-freebsd-ipfw Wed May 31 10:11:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Received: from rapidnet.com (rapidnet.com [205.164.216.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E0F137B69E for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 10:11:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@rapidnet.com) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by rapidnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA52342; Wed, 31 May 2000 11:10:45 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 11:10:44 -0600 (MDT) From: Nick Rogness To: Joshua Goodall Cc: Omachonu Ogali , Plamen Stoev , freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipfw problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 31 May 2000, Joshua Goodall wrote: > > On Wed, 31 May 2000, Nick Rogness wrote: > > > On Wed, 31 May 2000, Omachonu Ogali wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > 2) Load the 'ipfw' kernel module, provided '/modules/ipfw.ko' exists: > > > /sbin/kldload /modules/ipfw.ko > > > > > > > Even easier is in /etc/rc.conf: > > > > firewall_enable="YES" > > > > reboot. > > that's a bit "Microsoft" though :) Hmmm. Maybe (a*@h$?e) ;-) He's going to have to reboot anyway, if he rebuilds his kernel...why not add it then. What happens when you use your technique and he reboots...is he or is he not going to have to retype the command you specified above? Nick Rogness - Speak softly and carry a Gigabit switch. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message