Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 23:27:01 -0600 From: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-sender-09d23e@mired.org> Cc: Michael Kreykenbohm <mkrey@telus.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pre-built firewall kernel Message-ID: <20020117052701.GA27499@gforce.johnson.home> In-Reply-To: <15402.41015.825926.250358@guru.mired.org> References: <24224321@toto.iv> <15402.41015.825926.250358@guru.mired.org>
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On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 10:14:47PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > 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. But not if you also want to do nat. For that you must have a kernel compiled with the firewall flags and divert sockets. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@charter.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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