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Date:      Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:06:59 -0700 (MST)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
To:        nate@yogotech.com
Cc:        cjm2@earthling.net, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, n@nectar.cc
Subject:   Re: Proposed Solution To Recent "firewall_enable" Thread. [Please Read]
Message-ID:  <20020128.170659.97077059.imp@village.org>
In-Reply-To: <15445.54755.551301.284078@caddis.yogotech.com>
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            Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> writes:
: > : Yes, and I think having this is a good thing.  However, what are the
: > : default values for the variables?
: > 
: > In previous mail I suggested:
: > 
: > ipfw_enable=no
: > ipfw_firewall_enable=yes
: 
: Gotcha, I confused ipfw_enable with ipfw_firewall_enable.
: Unfortunately, it's not obvious which one the users should use to enable
: the functionality.
: 
: Now we have two variables that *appear* to be redundant....

That's as far as I'm willing to go.  The rest would be a documentation
issue.  It can be clearly stated how to disable things in the
documentation.

Of course, one could also argue that if you set firewall_enable to no
now that one could add
	net.inet.ip.fw.enable=0
to /etc/sysctl.conf.

Warner

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