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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IPFIREWALL and ipfw_mod.o confusion
Date: 23 Jun 1997 13:23:56 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5oi0te$sb9$1@soggy.eis.net.au>,
Ernie Elu <ernie@tinny.eis.net.au> writes:
> I am trying to get and ipfirewall running on 2.2.2-STABLE.
>
> When I compile a kernel with the option IPFIREWALL, the firewall seems
> to be blocking all traffic after reboot. If I try to add the rule
>
> ipfw add allow all from any to any I get an error until such time that I
> load the ipfw_mod.o module.
>
> I am confused, is loading of the lpfw module always required before
> the firewall will work, or should it work with just the kernel option
> compiled in? What is the relationship between the two?
Not on my bench. I have the following in my config:
options IPFIREWALL
options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE
If you *don't* have this, you have to load the module, so I suspect
you havn't built/installed your new kernel properly....
> - Ernie.
> _____________________________________________________________________
> Ernie Elu - ernie@eis.net.au - Brisbane - Australia
> "I ping, therefore I am."
> _____________________________________________________________________
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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