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Date:      Thu, 6 Oct 2005 17:56:14 -0400
From:      Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        "Brian E. Conklin" <bconklin@masongeneral.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Converting from IPFW to IPFILTER
Message-ID:  <BEF7E798-58F9-4B5A-8DC8-FFB5E96A47CA@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA513920FC73A14B964AB258D77EA8D6A44742@mx1.masongeneral.com>
References:  <CA513920FC73A14B964AB258D77EA8D6A44742@mx1.masongeneral.com>

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On Oct 6, 2005, at 5:44 PM, Brian E. Conklin wrote:
>     I am getting ready to switch a FreeBSD 4.11 machine from IPFW to
> IPFILTER for better FTP and NAT support.

Hmm.  Is there something natd doesn't handle for your case...?

>     I currently have IPFW compiled into the kernel.
>     Do I need to recompile a kernel without IPFW before I can  
> enable IPF?
>     Can I just set IPFW to allow everything by default?
>     Thanks in advance for your advice.

If you're going to switch to using IPF, you might want to consider  
upgrading or reinstalling the OS  to 5.4 instead of 4.11.

-- 
-Chuck





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