From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 12 10:05:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA02827 for current-outgoing; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 10:05:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from prefetch.san.rr.com (ns1.san.rr.com [204.210.0.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA02822 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 10:05:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (dt050ndd.san.rr.com [204.210.31.221]) by prefetch.san.rr.com (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA20051; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 10:04:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <34E3398E.DAF4EAC@dal.net> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 10:03:58 -0800 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE-0211 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Kukulies CC: freebsd-current@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: rc.network - ipfw l 65535 | grep deny ? References: <199802121203.MAA23164@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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