Re: Enable ipfw without rebooting

2005-09-29 Thread Achim Patzner
No. Performing a reboot is a rather bad idea. Actually _loading kernel modules you haven't been using before_ Lots of people have been using it before. *You* actually means: You have to have don it yourself, on the machine you want to use it before anyone is putting it to serious tasks.

Re: Enable ipfw without rebooting

2005-09-29 Thread scuba
Hi, Loading the kernel module "kldload ipfw", did the job. But nothing using rc's files helps to prevent being locked with a "deny all" default rule, since those files are not executed on module load. I had to use: kldload ipfw ; sh /etc/rc.firewall or

Re: Enable ipfw without rebooting

2005-09-29 Thread Oliver Fromme
Ganbold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > [...] > > For changing (and testing) rules, there's an even more > > elegant (and non-[qddisruptive) solution, see: > > /usr/share/examples/ipfw/change_rules.sh > > If you want to restart ipfw you can try: > > /etc/rc.d/ipfw r