Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 22:06:37 -0800 From: Bill Fumerola <billf@FreeBSD.org> To: fbsd_user <fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/60790: IPFW loadable module is useless as released Message-ID: <20040102060637.GO82802@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <200401011940.i01JeBhr076478@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200401011940.i01JeBhr076478@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 11:40:11AM -0800, fbsd_user wrote: > You must have miss-read the problem description. unlikely. > The ipfw loadable module is useless as it's currently distributed > with the FBSD operation system software. you're going to have to back this conjecture up with a fact or two. > You need to correctly compile it with all the options and make it > part of the new 5.2 version of FBSD > when you release the next stable production 5.2 release. you can compile it with different (non-standard) options that change its behavior. the defaults were chosen for a reason and have been the same for quite some time. > How does telling me to do my own kernel compile including IPFW fix > this problem? your problem seems to be a dislike for the default settings. > This does not fix the problem for all the other users of the FBSD > software. what problem? > It has to be fixed at your end an made part of the next software > release. as you wish. -- - bill fumerola / fumerola@yahoo-inc.com / billf@FreeBSD.org
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