Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:18:56 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: nick@garage.freebsd.pl Cc: dillon@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ipfw ipfw.8 ipfw2.c Message-ID: <20030113.101856.56901754.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20030113075934.GE9430@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <200301120331.h0C3VA2H040455@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030113075934.GE9430@garage.freebsd.pl>
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In message: <20030113075934.GE9430@garage.freebsd.pl> Pawel Jakub Dawidek <nick@garage.freebsd.pl> writes: : On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 07:31:10PM -0800, Matt Dillon wrote: : +> It turns out that we do not need to add a new ioctl to unbreak a : +> default-to-deny firewall. Simply turning off IPFW via a preexisting : +> sysctl does the job. To make it more apparent (since nobody picked up : +> on this in a week's worth of flames), the boolean sysctl's have been : +> integrated into the /sbin/ipfw command set in an obvious and straightforward : +> manner. For example, you can now do 'ipfw disable firewall' or : +> 'ipfw enable firewall'. This is far easier to remember then the : +> net.inet.ip.fw.enable sysctl. : : And what when securelevel >= 3? The new ioctl wouldn't work at that level anyway. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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