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From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
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To: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@stealthgeeks.net>
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Subject: Re: Firewall config non-intuitiveness
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Patrick Greenwell wrote:

> I recently got bit by this: I have firewall options configured into my
> kernel, and made the mistake of thinking that in order to disable
...

  Doesn't the kernel config documentation (LINT) explicitly state that the
firewall option denies all traffic by default?  I believe it also that a default
accept option can be specified.

  Hasn't ipfw worked this was since it was included in FreeBSD?

Tom


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