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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

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