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Date:      Sun, 2 Mar 2003 21:20:45 -0500
From:      Barney Wolff <barney@pit.databus.com>
To:        Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IPFIREWALL, /dev/ipl and friends
Message-ID:  <20030303022045.GA73672@pit.databus.com>
In-Reply-To: <200303022131.h22LVgtY076746@nic-naa.net>
References:  <200303022131.h22LVgtY076746@nic-naa.net>

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On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 04:31:42PM -0500, Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote:
> What is the mechanism in 5.0 for creating /dev/{ipauth,ipl,ipstate}?
> 
> < # Firewall
> < options               IPFIREWALL              #firewall
> < options               IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE      #enable logging to syslogd(8)
> < options               IPFIREWALL_FORWARD      #enable transparent proxy support
> < options               IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=100    #limit verbosity
> < options               IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT    #use ipf to close, not open
> < 
> < # Do not decrement the ttl, hide firewall from traceroute class tools
> < options         IPSTEALTH               #support for stealth forwarding
> < 
> 1,82c69,70
> < options       SMP                     # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
> < options       APIC_IO                 # Symmetric (APIC) I/O

IPFIREWALL and friends are for ipfw, not ipfilter (except IPSTEALTH).
5.0 uses devfs and creates pseudo-devices as needed.

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Barney Wolff         http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf
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