From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 9 04:40:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F30E16A4CE for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2003 04:40:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmyster.com (loqtis.bmyster.com [65.162.190.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F81743F3F for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2003 04:40:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shawn@guillemette.org) Received: from tacstation (66-63-96-2.metrocast.net [66.63.96.2]) by bmyster.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.10) with SMTP id hA9Cl6qj083999; Sun, 9 Nov 2003 07:47:14 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <001501c3a6c0$277d4a80$6701a8c0@tacstation> From: "Shawn Guillemette" To: "Alex de Kruijff" , "Malcolm Kay" References: <002001c3a64e$ca65e080$6701a8c0@tacstation> <200311091551.13066.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <20031109123002.GA553@dds.nl> Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 07:51:04 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPFW X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 12:40:27 -0000 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" To: "Malcolm Kay" Cc: "Shawn Guillemette" ; 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/ > >