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Date:      Wed, 30 Jan 2002 02:13:49 +0100
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Siegbert Baude <Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Summary: Problems and Proposals of firewall_enable (was: Re: firewall config (CTFM))
Message-ID:  <20020130011347.GA99635@student.uu.se>
In-Reply-To: <008001c1a877$091c2aa0$4011a8c0@whwurm.uniulm.de>
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On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 04:42:54AM +0100, Siegbert Baude wrote:
> 
> Problem 4:
> Maybe only my ignorance, because I never did it: How do I find out
> before reboot, if IPFIREWALL is compiled in my kernel, if the relevant
> config file is not there, e.g. on very stripped installations, where
> make buildworld/-kernel is done on external machines? We all know the
> lack of documentation in the real admin's world. Verbal heritage between
> admin generations is sometimes suboptimal, too.
> Don't forget compiling kernel with IPFIREWALL to be the recommended way,
> as someone mentioned in this thread! So this should be found in numerous
> computers.

kldstat -v | grep ipfw

should do the trick.  (To differ between if ipfw is compiled into the
kernel directly or has been loaded as a module you will probably have
to look at the output of 'kldstat -v' manually. (Or write a smarter
program to check the output.))


-- 
<Insert your favourite quote here.>
Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se

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