From owner-freebsd-security Fri Nov 17 15:24: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from rapidnet.com (rapidnet.com [205.164.216.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2F4B37B479 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:24:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (traviso@localhost) by rapidnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA81188; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:23:44 -0700 (MST) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:23:44 -0700 (MST) From: Travis {RapidSupport} To: Nuno Teixeira Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Restarting Firewall ruleset In-Reply-To: <00bd01c050e7$6f68f1f0$0200a8c0@n2> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Nuno Teixeira wrote: > Finally I configured a ppp firewall for my FreeBSD gateway. It is working > without any problems. > > My question is: how to restart firewall. I'm asking this, because I want to > make a lot of tests with it (opening / closing services, etc) and I don't > know how to restart it without rebooting the gateway machine. If you are running ipfw you will need to flush then reload: ipfw flush [y] ipfw /etc/firewalls/blah ...where "blah" is the firewall... If you are running ipf then: ipf -F a && ipf -f /etc/firewalls/ipf.blah ...where "ipf.blah" is the firewall... Travis /* -=[ Travis Ogden ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= RapidNet Admin Team "Courage is not defined by those who Phone#: 605.341.3283 fought and did not fall, but by those ICQ#: 30220771 who fought, fell, and rose again." Mail: traviso@RapidNet.com Fax#: 605.348.1031 Web: www.RapidNet.com/~traviso 800#: 800.763.2525 ATTENTION! "RapidNet will be moving to a new home the last week in November. Our new offices will be located at 330 Knollwood Drive, Rapid City, SD 57701." -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-[ traviso@rapidnet.com ]=-=-=-=-= */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message