Enable ipfw without rebooting

[Achim Patzner]

> Do you have IPFW code in your kernel?  (Either statically
> compiled via kernel config, or dynamically loaded as KLD)
>
> If you don't, then it doesn't work, of course.
>
> Try loading the IPFW KLD ("kldload ipfw").

And remember - doing a "shutdown -r +10" before trying might be a  
good idea - last time I did this I found out the hard way that the  
kernel module was built with a default action of "deny all from any  
to any".

There were only 800 km between me and the server.

Of course.


Achim