From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 5 6:23:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp06.wxs.nl (smtp06.wxs.nl [195.121.6.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42CD937B401 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 06:23:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alfatrion@cybertron.tmfweb.nl) Received: from cybertron ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp06.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.05) with SMTP id GHLJUY04.V0X; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 15:23:22 +0200 Message-ID: <003b01c11db1$c7efc140$231fa8c0@kruijff> From: "Alfatrion" To: Cc: References: <3B6D4609.11015.1A8AE39@localhost> Subject: Re: ipfilter ignores /etc/ipf.rules at boot Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 15:23:01 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: "Alfatrion" > To: , > Subject: Re: ipfilter ignores /etc/ipf.rules at boot > Date sent: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 13:32:30 +0200 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Kjell" > > To: > > Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 9:01 AM > > Subject: ipfilter ignores /etc/ipf.rules at boot > > > > > > > List members! > > > > > > I have built a firewall using the > > > "How to Build a FreeBSD-STABLE Firewall IPFILTER" howto. > > > > > > dmesg shows: IP filter initialized, default = block all, Logging = enabled > > > and farther down: IP filter already initialized > > > > > > The ipfstat command shows: empty list for ipfilter (in/out) > > > > > > Any hints on how things should be set up so the rules in the > > > "/etc/ipf.rules" file should be read? > > > > > > Thanks and regards from Kjell (LA3SG) > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > I had the exact same thing. With me it was because i linked the file to an > > other place. > > > > Alex > > > Thanks Alex! > But where did you set up the link? The documentation says that > /etc/ipf.rules is the default... > Kjell > I did this: mv /etc/ipf.rules /home/ipf.rules ln -s /home/ipf.rules /etc/ipf.rules After i removed this thing worked fine. I also needed to add this to my rc.conf ipfilter_enable="YES" ipfilter_flags="" Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message