Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 17:40:04 -0800 (PST) From: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@stealthgeeks.net> To: Bob K <melange@yip.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Firewall config non-intuitiveness Message-ID: <20020125173525.O55184-100000@rockstar.stealthgeeks.net> In-Reply-To: <20020125203328.A454@yip.org>
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On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Bob K wrote:
> The problem is that you're not taking into account the installed base of
> users who twiddle this knob. How many angry firewall admins will come
> into being when the behaviour suddenly stops being, "don't load any
> firewall rules" and starts being, "disable the firewall"?
I could be mistaken, but it would seem to me that the number of
individuals that really want to deny all traffic to and from their
machine(which is the current result of setting firewall_enable to no)
is relatively small.
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