Problem with "ipfw flush"

[Paul Schmehl]

--On January 24, 2007 4:18:12 PM -0500 "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" 
<danm at prime.gushi.org> wrote:
>
> Well, I'm trying to be compliant with /etc/rc.firewall's expectations
> for a rules file, which IS called with ipfw "rules.file"
>
Are you aware that you can run /etc/rc.d/ipfw restart?

You'll get locked out of that ssh session, but you can start another one 
immediately.  (Assuming you didn't screw up your rules, of course.)

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/