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Date:      Tue, 18 Feb 2003 15:49:40 -0800
From:      Jason Williams <jason@seanet.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   IPFW: rc.firewall script doesn't load when loading rules from a file
Message-ID:  <A588EF8C-439B-11D7-8842-00306555B1FA@seanet.com>

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I'm using FBSD 4.7 and have compiled ipfw into the kernel. My rc.conf 
file has the following:

firewall_enable="YES"
firewall_script="/etc/rc.firewall"
firewall_type="/etc/ipfw.rules"
firewall_quiet="NO"
firewall_logging_enable="YES"
log_in_vain="YES"
icmp_drop_redirect="YES"

On reboot, ipfw is not reading rc.firewall before loading my rules - 
/etc/ipfw.rules - as I've assumed it would. I thought I could let 
rc.firewall take care of housekeeping ( flush and loopback rules ) 
before moving on to the the custom rules in ipfw.rules. Am I missing 
something here or is it normal to bypass rc.firewall altogether and set 
up a rules file with everything needed in there? All the tutorials seem 
to suggest that ipfw reads rc.firewall first before moving onto custom 
rules files, but that has not been my experience here. Thanks for your 
help

Jason Williams
jason@seanet.com


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