From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 27 5:14:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cactus.fi.uba.ar (cactus.fi.uba.ar [157.92.49.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7384137B416 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 05:14:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from cactus.fi.uba.ar (cactus.fi.uba.ar [157.92.49.108]) by cactus.fi.uba.ar (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBRDBdK74727; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 10:11:44 -0300 (ART) (envelope-from fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 10:11:39 -0300 (ART) From: Fernando Gleiser To: Michael Kreykenbohm Cc: Subject: Re: pre-built firewall kernel In-Reply-To: <000801c18e5e$f60e8020$5d56b742@bc.hsia.telus.net> Message-ID: <20011227100513.F73822-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message