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From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To: Dave Robison <daver@vicor.com>
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Subject: Re: IPFW at startup.
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On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:52:41AM -0800, Dave Robison wrote:
> I haven't seen someone use "firewall_type" as a path to the config
> file. If you check the default rc.firewall file, you will see several
> types of default firewall settings, such as "open" and "closed". You
> want to set "firewall_type" in rc.conf to be "open" or whatever your
> firewall type is in /etc/rc.firewall.

What he needs to do is use firewall_script="/etc/ipfw.rules" rather than
firewall_type=

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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