From owner-freebsd-security Thu Nov 18 18:54:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id 84C8E151D2; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 18:54:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 740441CD626; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 18:54:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 18:54:32 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Zahemszky Gabor Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ipfw and ifconfig In-Reply-To: <199911181112.MAA00778@CoDe.hu> 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 Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Zahemszky Gabor wrote: > Hi! > > Somebody asked, and I cannot answered: > > Why in FreeBSD, there is ifconfig _before_ ipfw? If you have the "default to deny" ipfw kernel config option in place, as you certainly will if you care about security, then it doesn't matter.. Kris ---- Cthulhu for President! For when you're tired of choosing the _lesser_ of two evils.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message