Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 17:14:43 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com> To: Igor Vieira Debacker <igor@viamax.com.br> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Firewall Message-ID: <3A68BC53.51B13F04@mail.iowna.com> References: <001d01c0824b$be617530$502ca8c0@MMDSC.COM.BR>
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> Igor Vieira Debacker wrote: > > Greetings, > > I'm working on a company where a FREEBSD is installed. I'm not the guy > wich > installed it, and i'm not a great BSD user too. But today i tryed to > install > some Firewall Rulez... and when i tryed to do this: > > su-2.04# ipfw list > > I got the following answer: > > ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_GET): Protocol not available It's quite possible the kernel wasn't compiled with firewalling enabled. First read up on the whole firewall setup thing: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/firewalls.html There's a link in the section on configuring your kernel to the "building a kernel" section of the handbook, so if you're not familiar with that process you can read that as well. Hope this helps, Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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