Enable ipfw without rebooting

[Oliver Fromme]

scuba at centroin.com.br wrote:
 > On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, vladone wrote:
 > |U can use:
 > |ipfw enable or ipfw disable command (man ipfw)
 > 
 >         It doesn't work. Do nothing.
 > 
 > |or from sysctl:
 > |sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.enable=0 (to disable)
 > 
 >         This generate a error:
 > 
 > ‰sysctl: unknown id 'net.inet.ip.fw.enable'

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").

Best regards
   Oliver

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