IPFW version 2 is the only option now in HEAD. Do not confuse

users of future releases with instructions about building IPFW2
on RELENG_4.
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traffic shaper in
.Fx .
.Pp
.Bd -ragged -offset XXXX
.Em NOTE:
this manual page documents the newer version of
.Nm
introduced in
.Fx 5.0
in July 2002, also known as
.Nm ipfw2 .
.Nm ipfw2
is a superset of the old firewall,
.Nm ipfw1 .
The differences between the two are listed in Section
.Sx IPFW2 ENHANCEMENTS ,
which you are encouraged to read to revise older rulesets and possibly
write them more efficiently.
See Section
.Sx USING IPFW2 IN FreeBSD 4.x
for instructions on how to run
.Nm ipfw2
on
.Fx
4.x.
.Ed
.Pp
An
.Nm
configuration, or
@ -2036,27 +2012,6 @@ Controls whether bridged packets are passed to
.Nm .
Default is no.
.El
.Sh USING IPFW2 IN FreeBSD 4.x
.Nm ipfw2
is standard in
.Fx
5.x and 6.0, whereas
.Fx
4.x still uses
.Nm ipfw1
unless the kernel is compiled with
.Cm options IPFW2 ,
and
.Nm /sbin/ipfw
and
.Nm /usr/lib/libalias
are recompiled with
.Cm -DIPFW2
and reinstalled (the same effect can be achieved by adding
.Cm IPFW2=TRUE
to
.Nm /etc/make.conf
before a buildworld).
.Pp
.Sh IPFW2 ENHANCEMENTS
This Section lists the features that have been introduced in