Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 10:03:58 -0800 From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: rc.network - ipfw l 65535 | grep deny ? Message-ID: <34E3398E.DAF4EAC@dal.net> References: <199802121203.MAA23164@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > Could someone explain to me what the line 84 means? > I believe this is bogus. > > if ipfw l 65535 | grep deny; then > > # $Id: rc.network,v 1.16 1998/02/07 04:56:56 alex Exp $ That line is checking to determine whether the default rule is "deny" or "accept." an important distinction if you're going to warn people that IP services are disabled. :) Hope this helps, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe current" in the body of the message
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