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Date:      Thu, 27 Dec 2001 10:11:39 -0300 (ART)
From:      Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
To:        Michael Kreykenbohm <michaelk@wkcorp.com>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: pre-built firewall kernel
Message-ID:  <20011227100513.F73822-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
In-Reply-To: <000801c18e5e$f60e8020$5d56b742@bc.hsia.telus.net>

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On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Michael Kreykenbohm wrote:

> 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.

You don't need to have the firewall compiled in your kernel. FreeBSD
installs both firewalls (IP Filter and ipfw) as modules in the default
install.

If you want to use ipfw:

kldload ipfw

or if you prefer ip filter

kldload ipl

you can add 'ipl_load="YES"' or ipfw_load='"YES"' to /boot/loader.conf
to load them automatically at boot time.



			Fer

>
> Appreciate any help.
> Thanks in advance.
> _______________________
> Michael Kreykenbohm
> W. Kreykenbohm Corp
> 18788 96th Ave Surrey B.C.
> 604-888-4114
>


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