From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 26 20:14:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-201-166.mmcable.com [65.31.201.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B614C37B416 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 20:14:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 58092 invoked by uid 100); 27 Dec 2001 04:14:48 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15402.41015.825926.250358@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 22:14:47 -0600 To: "Michael Kreykenbohm" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pre-built firewall kernel In-Reply-To: <24224321@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA v0.42/Python 2.1.1 (freebsd4) From: "Mike Meyer" 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 Michael Kreykenbohm types: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C18E1B.E7868AE0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Please adjust your mailer to not send HTML copies along with the plain text. You tend to get better results hree. > Everythings looks great with the little system I setup, until I realized = > that the kernel does not have the firewall flags compiled into it. > Since I do not have the disk space for all the tools to compile etc, I = > was wondering if one of the distributions was already compliled > as a firewall, all I seem to need is a kernel itself with the generic = > items. Unlike Linux, FreeBSD isn't fragmented into a countably infinite number of "distributions". There's really just the one. However, you don't need to recompile the kernel to get a firewall on recent releases of FreeBSD. The ipfw firewall module can be loaded into generic, and works just fine. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message