[OpenIndiana-discuss] ipfilter doesn't read ipf.conf

Daniel Kjar dkjar at elmira.edu
Wed Feb 29 15:46:33 UTC 2012


I found this very frustrating as well.

On 02/29/12 10:25 AM, Anil Jangity wrote:
> svc:/network/ipfilter:default>  listprop firewall_config_default
> firewall_config_default                      com.sun,fw_configuration
> firewall_config_default/apply_to             astring
> firewall_config_default/custom_policy_file   astring
> firewall_config_default/exceptions           astring
> firewall_config_default/open_ports           astring
> firewall_config_default/policy               astring  none
> firewall_config_default/value_authorization  astring  solaris.smf.value.firewall.config
> firewall_config_default/version              count    1
> svc:/network/ipfilter:default>
>
> Looks like I need to set custom_policy_file to /etc/ipf/ipf.conf.
> What I was asking is why this isn't set by default? /etc/ip/ipf.conf has always been the standard config file for ipfilter.
>
>
> On Feb 28, 2012, at 10:20 PM, Milan Jurik wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> what do you mean by "default settings"? By default there is host-based firewall which is doing automagic and does not parse ipf.conf
>>
>> Which properties in group firewall_config_default of SMF service network/ipfilter:default do you have set and how?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Milan
>>
>> On 29.02.2012 07:01, Anil Jangity wrote:
>>> Is this a known issue, should I file a bug?
>>> ipfilter doesn't seem to want to read /etc/ipf/ipf.conf file(default
>>> settings). Also, has anyone had any problems with sending ipmon logs
>>> to syslog on 151a2?
>>>
>>> I have:
>>> local0.debug                                    /var/log/ipmon.log
>>> and then I restarted system-log.
>>>
>>> I have some rules that log data, but still not seeing anything in ipmon.log.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Anil
>>>
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