From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 17 21:38:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41ABD37B422 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 21:38:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu ([24.12.197.197]) by femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010518041030.SRYT24113.femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com@math.missouri.edu> for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 21:10:30 -0700 Message-ID: <3B04A0B6.B3200868@math.missouri.edu> Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 23:10:30 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: starting ipfw References: <200105180336.f4I3aA492477@vashon.polstra.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Polstra wrote: > > In article , Randy Bush wrote: > > i am trying ipfw and hitting a start problem. the machine boots up as if > > it has not been loaded. but my /etc/rc.conf says > > > > firewall_enable="YES" # Set to YES to enable firewall functionality > > firewall_script="/etc/ipfw.rules" # Which script to run to set up the firewall > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ should be firewall_type > No, firewall_type would be one of "simple" or "open" or whatever. It is read by /etc/rc.firewall assuming that firewall_script= "/etc/rc.firewall". Otherwise it has no effect. Probably ity would help to know what is in your (Randy's) /etc/ipfw.rules -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message