ipfw enable firewall not working

Mark Weinem mark.weinem at uni-duisburg.de
Tue Mar 23 02:59:46 PST 2004


On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Byron Schlemmer wrote:

> I'm having a problem enabling the ipfw firewall on RELENG-4.9 boxes
> cvsuped and installed today. Basically ipfw enable firewall leaves
> net.inet.ip.fw.enable set to 0 and the ipfw counters are not changing
> when I do a ipfw show, so the firewall is definitely not being loaded.
> Anyone else see this? Anyone have a fix? I have OPTIONS IPFW2 in the
> kernel and it's set to deny by default.

You need 
 
 	firewall_enable="YES"

in /etc/rc.conf

Ciao, Mark


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