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Date:      Mon, 13 Jan 2003 08:59:34 +0100
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <nick@garage.freebsd.pl>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ipfw ipfw.8 ipfw2.c
Message-ID:  <20030113075934.GE9430@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <200301120331.h0C3VA2H040455@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200301120331.h0C3VA2H040455@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 07:31:10PM -0800, Matt Dillon wrote:
+>   It turns out that we do not need to add a new ioctl to unbreak a
+>   default-to-deny firewall.  Simply turning off IPFW via a preexisting
+>   sysctl does the job.  To make it more apparent (since nobody picked up
+>   on this in a week's worth of flames), the boolean sysctl's have been
+>   integrated into the /sbin/ipfw command set in an obvious and straightf=
orward
+>   manner.  For example, you can now do 'ipfw disable firewall' or
+>   'ipfw enable firewall'.  This is far easier to remember then the
+>   net.inet.ip.fw.enable sysctl.

And what when securelevel >=3D 3?

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek
UNIX Systems Administrator
http://garage.freebsd.pl
Am I Evil? Yes, I Am.

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