Getting ipfw2 on FreeBSD-4.11-STABLE...

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Fri Aug 19 02:19:14 GMT 2005


On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:12:19 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
you wrote:

>I have FreeBSD-4.11-STABLE on one of my systems.  I did a 
>buildworld/installworld today - but I still have ipfw and not ipfw2 - 
>even though the manpage says otherwise.  

Add 
IPFW2=TRUE 
in /etc/make.conf
and 
options         IPFW2           #firewall
in the kernel

I *think* 
/usr/src/sbin/ipfw
make clean;make depend;make;make install
should work, and then a 
make buildkernel
should do the trick

	---Mike
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