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Date:      Mon, 28 Jan 2002 07:44:27 -0600
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.cc>
To:        "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
Cc:        security-officer@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Firewall config non-intuitiveness
Message-ID:  <20020128134427.GF33952@madman.nectar.cc>
In-Reply-To: <200201280751.g0S7p5414157@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>
References:  <20020127.120138.07163985.imp@village.org> <200201280751.g0S7p5414157@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>

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On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 08:51:05AM +0100, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
> Wouldn't we get rid of this entire argument, if IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT
> was the default for the kernel part of ipfw and there was an option
> IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_DENY for anyone preferring the "old" behaviour?

This will not happen.  Default-to-accept is unsafe.
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Jacques A. Vidrine <n@nectar.cc>                 http://www.nectar.cc/
NTT/Verio SME          .     FreeBSD UNIX     .       Heimdal Kerberos
jvidrine@verio.net     .  nectar@FreeBSD.org  .          nectar@kth.se

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