Good ol' ipfw or ipfw2?

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Thu Sep 25 05:01:06 PDT 2003


At 05:44 AM 25/09/2003, Roderick van Domburg wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>Which version of ipfw is preferred on the STABLE branch, the good ol' ipfw
>or the new ipfw2? I can see the ipfw2 kernel configuration option in the
>respective makefile, but it doesn't seem to be linted.

ipfw2 has some REALLY nice features over plain ipfw and I would suggest 
it.  Just add
OPTIONS IPFW2 into your kernel config and IPFW2=TRUE in /etc/make.conf

         ---Mike 



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