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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.


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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
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