From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 9 16:37:02 2010 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 8655610656A7 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:37:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: from smtp.ibctech.ca (v6.ibctech.ca [IPv6:2607:f118::b6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0EF648FC19 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:37:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 36488 invoked by uid 89); 9 Feb 2010 16:39:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.114?) (steve@ibctech.ca@::ffff:208.70.104.100) by ::ffff:208.70.104.210 with ESMTPA; 9 Feb 2010 16:39:53 -0000 Message-ID: <4B718F2A.8060801@ibctech.ca> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:36:58 -0500 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Huff References: <19313.36357.907425.293700@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <19313.36357.907425.293700@jerusalem.litteratus.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: documentation about enabling IPFW 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: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:37:02 -0000 Robert Huff wrote: > Can someone affirmatively verify that this part (30.6.1) of the > Handbook is correct? Particularly the last sentence. > Quote: > > IPFW is included in the basic FreeBSD install as a > separate run time loadable module. The system will > dynamically load the kernel module when the rc.conf > statement firewall_enable="YES" is used. There is no need > to compile IPFW into the FreeBSD kernel unless NAT > functionality is desired. Yes, it is correct. You can also load during runtime: # kldload ipfw.ko Steve