On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 04:40 +1100, Nix wrote:
WRONG! Do NOT run your firewall from boot.local as it will not initialize properly as your interfaces will not be configured correctly. You SHOULD as stated by someone else, create your own startup script for it (which is very easy to do)
Well, it depends. IIRC it was in the ancient ipfwadm times when you had to first up your interfaces and then could reference them in your packet filter rules. This changed with ipchains where you can first setup your filter rules and then configure and activate your NIFs. Although I agree that almost nothing is best put into boot.local and a new script in rc[23].d with an up and down branch would be most appropriate for a packet filter or a network service or other personal daemons, monitors, whatever. virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you.