From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 11 13:41:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22164 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 13:41:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from camel8.mindspring.com (camel8.mindspring.com [207.69.200.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22108 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 13:41:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from durkin@matter.net) Received: from gigantor.matter.net (user-38lcaio.dialup.mindspring.com [209.86.42.88]) by camel8.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA16353; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 16:39:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 16:39:39 -0400 (EDT) From: durkin Reply-To: durkin To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rc.firewall and ipfw commands In-Reply-To: <199806101505.IAA05083@cwsys.cwsent.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > In my firewall configurations I modify rc.firewall to recognize a > "user" firewall type (for user defined) and specify > firewall_type="user" in my rc.conf. The "user" firewall type executes > /usr/local/etc/rc.firewall.local instead of one of the predefined > firewall types in rc.firewall. This may be a handy feature in the > stock FreeBSD rc.firewall. If anyone wishes I can submit a PR to have > this included in the FreeBSD distribution. > Actually, FreeBSD's rc.firewall already has the ability to load ipfw commands contained within a file. Just specify the firewall type as the filename which contains the commands. Craig durkin@matter.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message