Stop firewall service

[LD]

Hi there,

On 09/11/2004, at 1:08 AM, Akhthar Parvez. K wrote:

> I am new in FreeBSD :). Could someone please tell me how to 
> stop/disable the
> firewall service temporarily in FreeBSD. Please let me know what is the
> firewall service in FreeBSD.

There are two builtin firewall options - both of which won't be enabled 
unless you've told them to be in /etc/rc.conf:

# for ipfw
firewall_enable="YES"

if the above is true:
`ipfw disable firewall' or
`ipfw -f flush'

# for ipf
pf_enable="YES"

see `man ipf'

the default options are to disable:
/etc/defaults/rc.conf

For more info:
1) man ipf[w]
2) http://freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook
[specifically --> Section 14 [security] --> firewalls]
3) google helps me too when the above two aren't verbose enough.

with regards,

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LD