Re: Switch for IP forwarding using firewall?

[sailer@sun10.sep.bnl.gov (Tim Sailer)]

In your email to me, Michael Meskes, you wrote:
> 
> Tim Sailer writes:
> > > Simply put
> > > 
> > > ipfwadm -F -p deny
> > > 
> > > somewhere in the startup files.
> > 
> > Then we'd have to have ipfwtk as part of the base system...
> 
> Ehem, what does this have to do with ipfwtk (btw what's that?). AFAIK

Unless my aging memory is failing me again, thats the name of the
full source package.. <shrug>

> ipfwadm is in netbase. So there's no problem.

True, but netbase is not in the 'base' package, so for a minimal
install, that wouldn't work. Right?

Tim

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