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>             Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> writes:
> : > : Yes, and I think having this is a good thing.  However, what are the
> : > : default values for the variables?
> : > 
> : > In previous mail I suggested:
> : > 
> : > ipfw_enable=no
> : > ipfw_firewall_enable=yes
> : 
> : Gotcha, I confused ipfw_enable with ipfw_firewall_enable.
> : Unfortunately, it's not obvious which one the users should use to enable
> : the functionality.
> : 
> : Now we have two variables that *appear* to be redundant....
> 
> That's as far as I'm willing to go.  The rest would be a documentation
> issue.  It can be clearly stated how to disable things in the
> documentation.

Sorry, but I think this would be *worse* (ie; more confusing) than the
already confusing setup we have now.



Nate

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