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Date:      Sun, 9 Feb 2003 11:53:03 -0800
From:      David Thiel <lx@redundancy.redundancy.org>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: TR : IPFilter
Message-ID:  <20030209195301.GA778@redundancy.redundancy.org>
In-Reply-To: <008701c2d06b$07b4e950$bede1e0a@XG396.local>
References:  <008701c2d06b$07b4e950$bede1e0a@XG396.local>

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On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 07:42:42PM +0100, Coercitas Temet'Nosce wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I was just wondering something regarding IPFilter and new FreeBSD 5.0
> 
> First, I was looking for IPF related functions in new Kernel building,
> didn't found them anywhere.maybe I did something wrong but not likely.
> Is it
> now a non kernel related application ?

The kernel options have moved.  Options that aren't platform specific
are in /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES, and the IPFILTER options are there.

> Btw, I was looking for some docs on the FreeBSD website and didn't
> found anything interesting, only firewall that FreeBSD seems to
> support nowadays is the old IPFW, which is quite obsolete now
> imo. Why are documentation pages not dealing with IPF at all ?
> is there any reason ?

There's no real need for them.  Just compile the kernel with the
appropriate options and there's plenty of docs on IPF that can
tell you the rest.


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