From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 28 11:54:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B90EB37B404 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:54:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from caddis.yogotech.com (caddis.yogotech.com [206.127.123.130]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA03513; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:53:49 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by caddis.yogotech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0SJrha69398; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:53:44 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15445.44102.288461.155113@caddis.yogotech.com> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:53:42 -0700 To: Erik Trulsson Cc: C J Michaels , charon@seektruth.org, dsyphers@uchicago.edu, imp@village.org, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Firewall config non-intuitiveness In-Reply-To: <20020128192930.GA86720@student.uu.se> References: <200201271757.g0RHvTF12944@midway.uchicago.edu> <1617.216.153.202.59.1012240332.squirrel@www1.27in.tv> <20020128192930.GA86720@student.uu.se> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Note that "do not enable firewall" (which is implied by firewall_enable="NO") > is *not* equivalent to "disable firewall". Maybe we're having an English language question. If something isn't enabled, doesn't that imply that it's disabled? Last I checked, enabled/disabled were binary operations. If I enable the clutch in my car, my car moves (assuming it's in gear). If I disable it, the power is no longer going to the drive wheels. It's either enabled or disabled. There is no 'in-between' state. (Well, unless you're riding the clutch, but that's not considered a valid state, since the behavior is undefined, as well as bad for your clutch. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message