Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 22:32:16 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPF/IPFW Message-ID: <200105030332.f433WG385971@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> of "Thu, 03 May 2001 12:48:43 %2B1000." <01da01c0d37b$936e6e60$0300a8c0@oracle>
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"Doug Young" writes: > I'm trying to figure that out too. As far as I can tell only IPFW is > installed by default (albeit needing kernel tweaking to activate), dunno > where one gets IPF from .... doesn't appear to be a sysinstall package or a > port so possibly its gotta be acquired from wherever & compiled. According > to some reports (freebsddiary et al) IPF has more functionality (whatever > that implies). > > Something else I'd like to know .... seems IPFW is enabled by default in > OpenBSD so why not in FreeBSD ?? Its not *turned on* by default. But its there without kernel tweaks. If you "firewall_enable=YES" in /etc/rc.conf then /etc/rc.network will "kldload ipfw" if it doesn't find ipfw statically in the kernel. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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