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Date:      Fri, 9 Jan 1998 21:39:19 -0600 (CST)
From:      Alex Nash <nash@mcs.net>
To:        thyerm@camtech.net.au
Cc:        kong@kkk.ml.org, Studded@dal.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Firewall in kernel?
Message-ID:  <199801100339.VAA01085@nash.pr.mcs.net>
In-Reply-To: <34B6DA80.C402491@camtech.net.au>

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On 10 Jan, Matthew Thyer wrote:
> It is caused by a program in rc.network which trys to detect if the
> firewall code is compiled into the kernel.  This program fails in
> some way and returns an error code in the 60's (I cant remember as
> I'm having to use Win95 right now) but the script only expects
> 0 or 1 as a return code so it mistakenly thinks the firewall is
> in the kernel.

Thanks for pointing this out!  A few days ago I changed the error codes
returned by ipfw to use those found in sysexits.h.  I didn't realize
there was a dependency on ipfw always returning 1 on error.

The next CTM update will include a fix for this (the script, not ipfw
:).

Alex





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