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Date:      Thu, 21 Jul 2005 04:18:14 +0300
From:      Abu Khaled <khaled.abu@gmail.com>
To:        Muk Dunkin <mukden@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: net.inet.ip.fw.enable=1
Message-ID:  <a64c109e0507201818587267ac@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050720224147.50313.qmail@web30606.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References:  <20050720224147.50313.qmail@web30606.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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On 7/21/05, Muk Dunkin <mukden@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> Does anyone know what's the reason why
> net.inet.ip.fw.enable was set to 1 as the default?
> I've tried setting it to 0 and reboot,
> net.inet.ip.fw.enable was reset to 1.  Being that, all
> packets will go thru the firewall code even if  there
> was no active firewall rules in place.
>=20
> Mukden
>=20

IPFW might be enabled in /etc/rc.conf
search for the line:
firewall_enable=3D"yes"
If yes then IPFW well always be enabled on (re)boot

--=20
Regards.
Abu Khaled



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