7-STABLE firewall gets flushed for both ipv4 and ipv6

From: Sean McNeil <sean_at_mcneil.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 21:37:14 -0800
Now that ip6fw is deprecated and ipfw does both v4 and v6 there is a 
problem with setup of a firewall. If, for example, you have

firewall_type="some_file"
ipv6_firewall_type="OPEN"

they both will not be setup. Instead, you will end up with just the 
rules from the one settup (depending on rcorder).

In order to work around the issue, I have merged the firewall rules into 
one file and use

firewall_type="/etc/fw/firewall.rules"
ipv6_firewall_type="/etc/fw/firewall.rules"

I don't know of any other way to do this properly.
Received on Fri Nov 23 2007 - 04:37:46 UTC

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