that is correct, you will not be able to "cross" branches. As for when m0n0 
will go 5.x, I hate to speak for Manuel so my opinion is that it will be a few 
months after 5.x goes stable. 

Chet Harvey
Pitbull Technologies <http://www.pittech.com/> 
Protecting your Digital Assets
703.407.7311


Quoting "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah at acm dot org>:

> [Please teach your mailer to properly wrap its lines.  I've fixed this
> up for you for this time.]
> 
> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 20:08, Mark Wass wrote:
> 
> > I want to use MonoWall with a new FreeBSD Kernal, say 5.2. I have 
> > hardware that does not appear to be compatible with FreeBSD 4.9. 
> > Is this possible? if so can someone please guide me in the right
> > direction? 
> 
> In general (and I strongly believe this is true for the case of
> m0n0wall), you can't just take a FreeBSD kernel built from sources on a
> different release train, drop it into an existing system, and expect it
> to work.
> 
> Bruce.
> 
>