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Date:      Tue, 18 Jun 2019 17:11:37 -0700
From:      "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
To:        "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Eliminating IPv6 (?)
Message-ID:  <25109.1560903097@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190618223143.4139C2015FF31A@ary.qy>

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In message <20190618223143.4139C2015FF31A@ary.qy>, 
"John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:

>In article <24393.1560893271@segfault.tristatelogic.com> you write:
>>Why is /etc/rc.firewall even being executed?  I never explicitly asked for
>>that, but that seems to just be a by-product of how things are arranged
>>these days.... a by-product that I have no direct control over.
>
>It's called from the shell script /etc/rc.d/ipfw so if you don't like what
>it does, make it do something else.

Believe me, I fully understand that.

I was just responding to that other guy who asked me the question "Why
are you even running /etc/rc.firewall?"

The answer is:  I didn't consciously decide to do that.  It just happens.



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