On 2010.04.11 11:57, Jerry wrote: > I am using IPFW on a FreeBSD-7.3 machine. Presently, I am loading > several tables for IPFW. So far, I have just keep the data for the > tables in the actual "ipfw-rules" referenced in the 'rc.conf' file > itself. What I would like to do is keep the data for these tables in > separate files and just have them imported when the firewall is loaded. > I have constructed a simple script that is called from the 'ipfw-rules' > file. > > My question is if there is a better way of accomplishing this? Is there > a downside to doing this way? The data for these tables tends to be > dynamic and I would rather work with the separate files than edit the > master one and risk messing it up.
I have a setup that is very similar to this. I 'include' the other files from the one referenced in /etc/rc.conf by adding lines like this: . /etc/ipfw.include Steve _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
