net.inet.ip.fw.enable=1

[Abu Khaled]

On 7/21/05, Muk Dunkin <mukden at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know what's the reason why
> net.inet.ip.fw.enable was set to 1 as the default?
> I've tried setting it to 0 and reboot,
> net.inet.ip.fw.enable was reset to 1.  Being that, all
> packets will go thru the firewall code even if  there
> was no active firewall rules in place.
> 
> Mukden
> 

IPFW might be enabled in /etc/rc.conf
search for the line:
firewall_enable="yes"
If yes then IPFW well always be enabled on (re)boot

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Regards.
Abu Khaled