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From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 17:56:14 -0400
To: "Brian E. Conklin" <bconklin@masongeneral.com>
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Subject: Re: Converting from IPFW to IPFILTER
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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