From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 2 03:41:22 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A03E11065670 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 03:41:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email1.allantgroup.com (email1.emsphone.com [199.67.51.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5642D8FC08 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 03:41:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan-a.emsphone.com [199.67.51.107]) by email1.allantgroup.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id n123fLpP005391 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 21:41:21 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n123fK8C082169 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 21:41:21 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n123fJVO082160; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 21:41:19 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 21:41:19 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Brett Glass Message-ID: <20090202034118.GI75802@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200902012207.PAA29008@lariat.net> <20090202004344.GH75802@dan.emsphone.com> <200902020112.SAA00512@lariat.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200902020112.SAA00512@lariat.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.94.1, clamav-milter version 0.94.1 on email1.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (email1.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:41:21 -0600 (CST) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPFW in-kernel NAT: How to compile? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:41:22 -0000 In the last episode (Feb 01), Brett Glass said: > At 05:43 PM 2/1/2009, Dan Nelson wrote: > > >Do you have "options LIBALIAS" in your kernel config? > > Nope. There was nothing that said that such an option was needed > (or even that it existed). I did find it, via a recursive grep, in > a file labeled "NOTES" a couple of levels up in the directory > hierarchy. I'm trying a compile now to see if that's all that's > needed to fix the problem. > > It looks as if there's no longer one easy place to find out how to > configure a kernel. The options used to all be in a LINT file that > was present in the configuration directory.... No more. LINT was removed back in 2000 and replaced with NOTES, since that better describes what it's really used for. IPFIREWALL_NAT and LIBALIAS should additionally be documented in ipfw(4) imho. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com