Converting from IPFW to IPFILTER
Charles Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Thu Oct 6 14:56:16 PDT 2005
On Oct 6, 2005, at 5:44 PM, Brian E. Conklin wrote:
> I am getting ready to switch a FreeBSD 4.11 machine from IPFW to
> IPFILTER for better FTP and NAT support.
Hmm. Is there something natd doesn't handle for your case...?
> I currently have IPFW compiled into the kernel.
> Do I need to recompile a kernel without IPFW before I can
> enable IPF?
> Can I just set IPFW to allow everything by default?
> Thanks in advance for your advice.
If you're going to switch to using IPF, you might want to consider
upgrading or reinstalling the OS to 5.4 instead of 4.11.
--
-Chuck
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