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Date:      Mon, 1 Jun 2009 06:29:53 +0000 (UTC)
From:      "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r193198 - head/etc/rc.d
Message-ID:  <20090601062701.C12292@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net>
In-Reply-To: <200906010535.n515Z4qK065272@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <200906010535.n515Z4qK065272@svn.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Doug Barton wrote:

> Author: dougb
> Date: Mon Jun  1 05:35:03 2009
> New Revision: 193198
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/193198
>
> Log:
>  Make the pf and ipfw firewalls start before netif, just like ipfilter
>  already does. This eliminates a logical inconsistency, and a small
>  window where the system is open after the network comes up.

Unfortunetaly this is contrary to a lot of PRs and requests on mailing
lists out there that actually want the netif/network_ipv6 to be run
_before_ things come up.  Espescially pf really needs this to avoid
rules that needs to do per paket lookups of the interface address.

Further ipfw has a default option being setaable at compile time and as
TUNABLE to handle this window.

-- 
Bjoern A. Zeeb                      The greatest risk is not taking one.



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