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Date:      Sun, 11 Feb 2001 14:58:37 -0800
From:      "DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1)" <gene_dinkey@hp.com>
To:        "'Douglas C.Garrick'" <douggarrick@sweetwaterhsa.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Kernel Build for a firewall / gateway
Message-ID:  <F341E03C8ED6D311805E00902761278C531577@xfc04.fc.hp.com>

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Think you could post the errors your getting?

Gene Dinkey
Hewlett Packard Customer Care
TCD - PA-RISC based workstations


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas C.Garrick [mailto:douggarrick@sweetwaterhsa.com]
> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 7:48 AM
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Kernel Build for a firewall / gateway
> 
> 
> I'm not sure what I am doing wrong with this thing so I'm 
> asking for some help.
>  ( I hope this is actually a hard problem and not something 
> really easy that I
> should have caught sooner this.)  So thanks in advance for 
> your time and help )
> 
> Here's the situation.   I just got a cable modem.   I want to 
> build a machine
> that will forward internet traffic from the rest of my home 
> network..  
> 
> The machine is a pretty standard clone.  Asus P5 166 mhz MB,  
> 64 Mbytes of ram,
> Quantum IDE/ATA disk drive, SONY IDE/ATA cdrom, no floppies.  
> 
> Here's what I am doing for the network.  I have a 3com 3c509b 
> on the private
> side and a 3com 3c905xl on the public side.   Both of these 
> interfaces come up
> and are available to their respective networks.   
> 
> I have enabled routed,  natd,  and ipfirewall in 
> /etc/rc.conf.   I have added
> options for IPFIREWALL and IPDIVERT to 
> ../i386/conf/config-file.   I do not
> enable IPv6 support anywhere. 
> 
> I cannot get this kernel to compile to save my life.   
> 
> Here's what I've done to this point.  I've tried building the
> kernel with the "config config-file' method to no avail.   
> "Config" works fine, 
> "make depend" works fine,  then "make"  always fails with a 
> syntax error. 
> Thinking that it may be dependency or probe order issue I'll 
> check the config
> file and try again.  The next time through I'll get a syntax 
> error at a
> different *c file.  I then figured that I should try 
> /usr/src/make world,   make
> buildkernel,  make installkernel method.   That fails with a 
> syntax error(s)
> like the other method.     It actually seems like it's a 
> compliler error rather
> than a code error.  hmm... is this a compatibliity thing?
> 
> I've done several FreeBSD systems with nothing but great 
> success.  I use them
> for ppp routers and www servers and just general workstations 
> but now my
> teenage  daughter ( whose life depends on the availability of 
> instant messaging
> on the computer in her room ) is starting to question my ability.
> 
> 
> Doug Garrick
> douggarrick@sweetwaterhsa.com
> 
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