lack in the firewall chapter

Ken Smith kensmith at cse.Buffalo.EDU
Tue Oct 28 14:09:08 UTC 2003


On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:00:41PM -0200, Gabriel C. de Barros wrote:

> i've spend two days trying to set ipfw or ipf .. before i understant that i 
> should lower my kernel security settings before messing with the rules.
> 
> I think the handbook should mention that, at least in a footnote or 
> something.
> 
> It was hard to find the answer, but while searching for it, i realized it's 
> a very common new-user mistake.

I have a couple of ipfw related PR's I need to work on, I can take
care of this as part of finishing those up.

Basically you're saying if you have raised the security level of the
kernel above 0 you can no longer change the ipfw rules.

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