From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 12 10:27:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA06305 for current-outgoing; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 10:27:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA06294 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 10:27:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nash@Jupiter.Mcs.Net) Received: from Jupiter.Mcs.Net (nash@Jupiter.mcs.net [192.160.127.88]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with ESMTP id MAA16364; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 12:27:15 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (nash@localhost) by Jupiter.Mcs.Net (8.8.7/8.8.2) with SMTP id MAA05056; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 12:27:14 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 12:27:14 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Nash To: Christoph Kukulies cc: Studded , freebsd-current@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: rc.network - ipfw l 65535 | grep deny ? In-Reply-To: <19980212181642.44127@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > 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. :) > > yeah, but when I type > > ipfw l 65535 > > in the command line (sh prompt) I'm getting an error > about bad arguments and a 'usage' message. > Am I using the wrong ipfw or what's wrong here? Yes you're using the wrong ipfw. Try using an ipfw of the same vintage as the rc.network you're looking at: etc/rc.network revision 1.16 date: 1998/02/07 04:56:56; author: alex; state: Exp; lines: +6 -3 Don't assume that IP services are disabled just because firewall_enable is not set to YES in rc.conf. sbin/ipfw/ipfw.c revision 1.51 date: 1998/01/07 02:23:04; author: alex; state: Exp; lines: +72 -29 Support listing/showing specific rules supplied on the command line. Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe current" in the body of the message