ipfilter loading on 5.3

Jay Moore jaymo at cromagnon.cullmail.com
Mon Nov 8 20:04:58 PST 2004


On Monday 08 November 2004 11:01 am, dave wrote:
> Hello,
>     I believe i am having a configuration error. I've got a new 5.3 box to
> which i'm atempting to get ipfilter going. I read the updated handbook and
> have added:
>
> ipfilter_enable="YES"
> ipfilter_rules="/etc/ipf.rules"
> ipmon_enable="YES"
> ipmon_flags="-Dsvn"
>
> to my rc.conf file. When i try to manually load up my rules file with:
> ipf -FA -f /etc/ipf.rules
>  i am getting an error "can not open no such device"

The error is a grammatical one... this message has a double negative!!

  :)

Seriously, though - I'd dump ipfilter and go for pf.

Jay 


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