Put in a note about the ipfw to pfil_hooks conversion and the requirement

of having said in the kernel to be able to use ipfw.
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Andre Oppermann 2004-08-19 18:54:54 +00:00
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@ -21,6 +21,14 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 5.x IS SLOW:
developers choose to disable these features on build machines
to maximize performance.
20040817:
IPFW has been converted to use PFIL_HOOKS. This is change is
transparent to userland and preserves the ipfw ABI. The ipfw
core packet inspection and filtering functions have not been
changed, only how ipfw is invoked is different. Note that
"option PFIL_HOOKS" is required to use IPFIREWALL compiled
into the kernel or as KLD.
20040814:
The RANDOM_IP_ID option has been replaced by the sysctl
net.inet.ip.random_id. If you had RANDOM_IP_ID in your kernel then