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Date:      Wed, 19 Feb 2003 05:20:13 +0100 (CET)
From:      520023893678-0001@t-online.de (P. U. Kruppa)
To:        Jason Williams <jason@seanet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IPFW: rc.firewall script doesn't load when loading rules from a file
Message-ID:  <20030219051338.B3399@small.pukruppa.de>
In-Reply-To: <A588EF8C-439B-11D7-8842-00306555B1FA@seanet.com>
References:  <A588EF8C-439B-11D7-8842-00306555B1FA@seanet.com>

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On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Jason Williams wrote:

> 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"

all you need to do, is to put your list of
ipfw ...
statements into your /etc/ipfw.rules and make it executable by
# chmod 750 /etc/ipfw.rules
and they will be executed on bootup.

The line
firewall_type="/etc/ipfw.rules"
in your rc.conf is not necessary.

Uli.

>
> 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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