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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: Saving the configuration of 'ipfw'
To: bradh@iafrica.com (Brad Hendrickse)
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 15:13:46 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970701230844.25061A-100000@nscfw.iafrica.com> from "Brad Hendrickse" at Jul 1, 97 11:10:41 pm
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Brad Hendrickse wrote:
> 
> 
>  Hi there, as you can tell from the subject, I'm wanting to know if it's
> possible to save the configuration of 'ipfw'. Each time I reboot, I find I
> have to reconfigure it.
> 

	after configuring ipfw, execute "ipfw list > outputfile>"
	edit the outputfile, prepend "/sbin/ipfw add " to each line.
	you can then add the outputfile to the end of /etc/rc.ipfw
jmb