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From: Bill Fumerola <billf@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: kern/60790: IPFW loadable module is useless as released
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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.

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- bill fumerola / fumerola@yahoo-inc.com / billf@FreeBSD.org