Handbook Errata

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Fri Dec 16 00:39:37 UTC 2005


On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:07:41 -0200
Valmir Filho <valmir at wbrnet.com.br> wrote:

> Doc,
> 
> Readign    FreeBSD's   Hankbook,   specifically   the   IPFW   chapter
> (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls-ipfw.html),
> i´ve found that the following:
> 
> 25.6.3 /etc/rc.conf Options
> 
> If you do not have IPFW ...
> 
> firewall_enable="YES"
> 
> Set the script to run to activate your rules:
> 
> firewall_script="/etc/ipfw.rules"
> 
> 
> My observation is:
> 
> Reading  /etc/rc.firewall  script  i´ve  found  that  the  above  line
> (firewall_script="/etc/ipfw.rules") must be changed to "firewall_type"
> and not "firewall_script".

The 'firewall_type' option is different than the 'firewall_script'
option.  The first one allows you to use a predefined
configuration in /etc/rc.firewall.  The latter one,
'firewall_script' allows you to load a custom firewall ruleset.

-- 
Tom Rhodes



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