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Date:      Thu, 17 May 2001 23:18:14 -0400
From:      Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>
To:        Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: starting ipfw
Message-ID:  <20010517231813.A27636@buddha.home.automagic.org>
In-Reply-To: <E150aBy-0002kz-00@rip.psg.com>; from randy@psg.com on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 07:40:38PM -0700
References:  <E150aBy-0002kz-00@rip.psg.com>

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Hey Randy,

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 07:40:38PM -0700, 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

$firewall_script is a script which is sourced from rc.network, not a
configuration file for ipfw. The default is /etc/rc.firewall.

Since /etc/ipfw.rules is likely not something that can be sourced by
sh, you are getting errors.

> if i  run ipfw manually, the net comes up.


Joe

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