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Date:      Thu, 2 Jan 2003 19:20:45 +0000
From:      Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>
Cc:        Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>, l.rizzo@iet.unipi.it, doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IPFW: suicidal defaults
Message-ID:  <20030102192045.GB1145@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030102120754.P4054-100000@skywalker.rogness.net>
References:  <003101c2b28f$f2b0b690$6601a8c0@VAIO650> <20030102120754.P4054-100000@skywalker.rogness.net>

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On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:12:38PM -0700, Nick Rogness wrote:
> 
> 	Ummm, unless things have changed, just recompiling the kernel with
> 	'options IPFIREWALL' won't enable your firewall.  You need the
> 	corresponding option in /etc/rc.conf :
> 
> 		firewall_enable="YES"

Nope - that tells it whether to load the ruleset (and ipfw.ko) or not.

If you've compiled ipfw as a module, then not having firewall_enable set to
YES is enough to not load the firewall, but if you've compiled it into your
kernel and don't load any rules, then you just get the default rule.

Ceri
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