From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 8 13:12:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F1C037B41C for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 13:12:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g18LCWb94142; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 15:12:32 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 15:12:32 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Lord Raiden Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Working Firewall in halt mode?? Message-ID: <20020208211231.GA57914@dan.emsphone.com> References: <4.2.0.58.20020208152214.00986a40@pop.netzero.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020208152214.00986a40@pop.netzero.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Feb 08), Lord Raiden said: > Now also, would this require a kernel rebuild/compile to enable > IPchains and IPFW support, or can you do this off a generic kernel? > Currently I have to recompile my kernel to enable both, but I'd be > curious to know if this would be doable off of just a basic install > and generic kernel, cause if it could be, that would make setting up > a firewall not only simpler, but you could theoretically have one > running in like 30-45 minutes rather than 4-6 hours. :) GENERIC has support for both ipfw and ipfilter as loadable modules. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message