Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 07:54:54 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Eliminating IPv6 (?) Message-ID: <23816.53518.998090.665606@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <19574.1560847186@segfault.tristatelogic.com> References: <9AF5DF39-9B81-4270-B25C-D089C971E924@punkt.de> <19574.1560847186@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
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Ronald F. Guilmette writes: > >Instead of messing with the system provided file you could > >create a new one with only your own desired rules and then set > >this rc.conf variable: > > > > firewall_script="/etc/rc.firewall" > > Actually, no, that's not how one is supposed to enable one's own set > of ipfw ules. To do that, the Handbook (Sec. 30.4.1) says very clearly > that one should do: > > firewall_enable="YES" > firewall_type="path-to-my-rules-file" > > But I'm glad you brought it up. The funny thing is that even that > doesn't work properly nowadays *or* like it used to in the past. If this is true - haven't checked personally - then it's a bug. (And a non-trivial one, the fact you're the first to report it notwithstanding.) Can you please open a bug report? Respectfully, Robert Huff
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