> You still haven't responded to my comment that I have it setup like > this on some of my boxes so that I can do things that don't fit in > well with the current firewall paradigm. Nor to my comment that we > shouldn't be changing a security feature in a fail*UN*safe way.
Explain to me how disabling the firewall with 'FIREWALL_ENABLE=NO' can be unsafe? Can you show me *ANY* system that uses a closed down firewall that also has FIREWALL_ENABLE=NO? That would be the only 'safe->unsafe' transition, since otherwise the default firewall setup is wide-open. > I'll grant that I might be in the minority here, but I sure don't want > my the ability to use my firewall going away after my "next" > mergemaster change because you were helpful and unloaded/disabled > stuff for me. Fixing something that's broken is still fixing something. If you don't want a firewall, then why have it activated and enabled? (This is a rhetorical question.) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message