IPFW in-kernel NAT: How to compile?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Sun Feb 1 17:12:42 PST 2009


In the last episode (Feb 01), Brett Glass said:
> I'm building a machine using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE, and noticed that there
> was now a kernel configuration option to enable in-kernel NAT in IPFW. 
> So, starting with a pristine system, I tried to rebuild the kernel with
> this feature as I trimmed out the unneeded device drivers.  But the build
> failed -- and the error messages suggest that the problem had to do with
> linking libalias into the kernel.
> 
> libalias seems to be there, so I'm not sure what's wrong. Ideas?

Do you have "options LIBALIAS" in your kernel config? 

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	Dan Nelson
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