Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 07:51:04 -0500 From: "Shawn Guillemette" <shawn@guillemette.org> To: "Alex de Kruijff" <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl>, "Malcolm Kay" <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPFW Message-ID: <001501c3a6c0$277d4a80$6701a8c0@tacstation> References: <002001c3a64e$ca65e080$6701a8c0@tacstation> <200311091551.13066.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <20031109123002.GA553@dds.nl>
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the rc.firewall file worked. thank you very much.. my problem was i did not have the right optinons in my rc.conf file. I just noriced that after I read your email .. it as not looking to rc.conf thanks again.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex de Kruijff" <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: "Malcolm Kay" <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Cc: "Shawn Guillemette" <shawn@guillemette.org>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 7:30 AM Subject: Re: IPFW > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:51:13PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 09:49, Shawn Guillemette wrote: > > > I have installed ipfw and each time the machien is rebooted I lose the > > > rules I added. > > > > > > any thoughts? > > > > > > > Do you mean you have added them by hand at the command lline? > > If you add them with this command 'ipfw add ...' then you do lose them > at the reboot indeed. > > > I believe the norm is to have them in rc.firewall and with the appropriate > > variables set in rc.conf it will all happen during the normal boot process. > > (This is NOT in my area of expertise -- but you don't yet seem to have > > a response from the knowledgable.) > > If you create your own firewall then its better to create your own file > as rc.firewall can get overriden by mergemaster. One only wants to use > this script if likes the default. > > You may wanna look at my homepage, I have a couple of articles about > firewalls. Please feel free to contact me if you have trouble with it. > > -- > Alex > > Articles based on solutions that I use: > http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/ > >
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