options I can not build into the kernel

[paulfrottawa]

options IPV6FIREWALL
options IPV6FIREWALL_VERBOSE
options IPV6FIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT
options IPV6FIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT

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Reading this page
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls-ipfw.html

I thougt I should install these options. I take them one out at a time but each are unknown.

/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/proxy: unknown option "IPV6FIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT"
*** Error code 1

7.0-RELEASE-p6

 

[Djn]

This mailing list post looks relevant.

> and I tried this also (from http://www.kame.net/~suz/freebsd-ipv6-config-
> guide.txt) :
>
> options IPV6FIREWALL
> #options IPV6FIREWALL_VERBOSE
> #options IPV6FIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=100
> #options IPV6FIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT
> But all I get is an "unknown option" error when I do a make buildkernel.

That information is out of date. ipfw now handles both IPv4 and IPv6 without any extra kernel configuration required. All you need to do is write rules that reference IPv6 addresses etc.

The handbook page could use some updating, apparently.

 

[ale]

These options are not needed anymore, the document is obsolete.
AFAIK, using just the option for ipv6 works also for ipv6.

P.S.
Sorry for "duplicate" answer.
Apparently the functionality to remove posts has been removed.

 

[danger@]

guys, I have removed the IPV6FIREWALL* options from the handbook section, thank you for noticing.

 

[Djn]

Ah, good.