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From: jonc@pinnacle.co.nz (Jonathan Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2.2 IPFW problem
Date: 17 Jul 1997 10:16:47 +1200
Organization: Pinnacle Software Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
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In <01bc91d5$56e2b190$fde955c2@iaipc0> "Alexander B. Smirnov" <as@iai.rssi.ru> writes:

>Dear All,
>
>I have recently upgraded the 2.1.5 to 2.2.2. Everything seems to work fine
>but a firewall.
>Despite that I have enabled it in the kernel every time I issue ipfw
>command it complains:
>
>as /home/as> ipfw list
>ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_GET): Invalid argument
>as /home/as>

You have to compile a custom kernel, with the IPFW options on.
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Jonathan Chen                                 <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
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