Dumb ipnat question

[Michael VanLoon]

I didn't find "IPFILTER" in either the GENERIC or NOTES kernel files, so no, I didn't compile it in.  I was wondering about it, though, based on older kernel help messages I found on the net (> 10 years old).
 
I'll give both of those options a try.  Thanks!
 
- Michael

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From: Odhiambo Washington [mailto:odhiambo at gmail.com]
Sent: Fri 1/23/2009 6:39 AM
To: Michael VanLoon
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Dumb ipnat question


On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Michael VanLoon <michaelv at noncomposmentis.net> wrote:


	I have built a simple 7.1 system in a VM.  I built a custom kernel that is basically GENERIC minus some hardware stuff I don't need, plus a few things that look cool.
	
	When I attempt to run the ipnat command, I get the error:
	/dev/ipnat: open: No such file or directory
	
	Sure enough, there are no ip* devices in /dev/.  In the "olden days", when I used to do a lot of BSD hacking, you used MAKEDEV to make the devices you wanted.  Nowadays, it's done with devfs.  I believe the upshot is that it's supposed to be semi-automagic, isn't it?
	
	Anyway, what am I doing wrong?  What do I need to configure to use ipnat and then later ipfw or ipfilter?


Did you load the modules?
ipl_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf and reboot OR
kldload ipl

If you did not compile IPFILTER in the kernel, then you must load the module.

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