(Yet Another) Home Networking Question

[Mike Maltese]

> One thing you yet lack, according to the handbook,
> and it's a bit of a job.  The GENERIC kernel doesn't
> ship with the following options, which you are
> supposed to need.
>
> options IPFIREWALL
> options IPDIVERT
>
> Add them to /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC,
> run "make buildkernel" and "make installkernel"
> as root, then reboot and try again.  (You do have
> /usr/src, right?)
>
> That is, unless there's some way to do this other
> than that...I didn't find it...but afterwards I'm natting
> happily all over the farm.... ;-)

The ipfw KLD should load on demand. I believe the it builds with divert
enabled and defaults to block all.