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From: Mike D Tancsa <mdtancsa@sentex.net>
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Subject: Re: Saving the configuration of 'ipfw'
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970701230844.25061A-100000@nscfw.iafrica.com> from Brad Hendrickse at "Jul 1, 97 11:10:41 pm"
To: bradh@iafrica.com (Brad Hendrickse)
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 17:55:35 -0400 (EDT)
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> 
>  Hi there, as you can tell from the subject, I'm wanting to know if it's
> possible to save the configuration of 'ipfw'. Each time I reboot, I find I
> have to reconfigure it.

You can put the rules in rc.firewall
Make sure that in either /etc/sysconfig or /etc/rc.conf (depending on
which version of FreeBSD you are running), you change the line
fire_wall="NO" to firewall="YES"

	---Mike