Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:36:58 -0500 From: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: documentation about enabling IPFW Message-ID: <4B718F2A.8060801@ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: <19313.36357.907425.293700@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <19313.36357.907425.293700@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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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
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