Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 09:31:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Jason Nugent <malhavoc@stomped.com> To: Terry Zink <tzink@metrocon.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: More on the NFS issue Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0107030929450.48833-100000@smithers.stomped.com> In-Reply-To: <01070310271807.22407@coldstone.metrocon.com>
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web1# kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name 1 1 0xc0100000 35af78 kernel I had thought that doing the make installkernel removes the old modules (moves it to modules.old) and installs new ones. Would the ipfw module get installed if it was removed from the kernel itself? Jason On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 at 9:29am, Terry Zink thought about > type kldstat > Basically, the rc.conf loads a kernel module I believe. > Thats all that firewall_enable entry does to my KNOWLEDGE. (ive never checked > it though). > > > > On Tuesday 03 July 2001 09:31, you wrote: > > Hi, folks, > > > > Yeap, I'm still fiddling with this. I've discovered even more interesting > > things. > > > > If you recall, I was having difficulty getting my NFS partitions to mount > > correctly after upgrading to the latest 4.3-STABLE. My latest experiment > > was to see if IPFW was causing problems, so I performed the following > > steps: > > > > 1. I re-cvsup'ped the latest 4.3-stable source, and created a new kernel > > config file called TEST that was essentially a direct copy of GENERIC. > > The only thing I changed was the IDENT and the MAXUSERS. > > > > 2. I did a new make buildworld and make buildkernel using my test kernel. > > I then performed a make installkernel with this new kernel. I did -not- > > perform a make installworld. > > > > 3. I rebooted the machine from my terminal server and watched, with a > > certain amount of glee, as it booted up with no errors. I shelled in, and > > made sure all my partitions were mounted. I was happy. > > > > 4. I found something quite interesting at that point. You see, I had > > left my old firewall rules in /etc/rc.firewall. I had also left my > > firewall_enable="yes" and firewall_type="client" config options in > > /etc/rc.conf. What surprised me, therefore, was that all my rules were > > loaded and active, and working (I tested my rules from various other > > machines, and used ipfw to add and remove them). > > > > But, I thought I had removed all IPFW support from my test kernel? It was > > a copy of GENERIC? > > > > So, my question is, why would my rules still be working? I realize > > that I had left things turned on in my config file, but I was expecting > > those options to cause errors since IPFW was turned off in my test kernel. > > > > Regards, > > > > Jason > > > > ---------------------- > > Jason Nugent > > Aka MalHavoc > > Server Programmer and Administrator > > > > S T O M P E D . C O M > > > > For PGP public key: http://malhavoc.stomped.com > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Regards, > > Terry Zink > System Administrator > Metrocon Communications > Phone: (212) 661-6800 x 1553 > ---------------------- Jason Nugent Aka MalHavoc Server Programmer and Administrator S T O M P E D . C O M For PGP public key: http://malhavoc.stomped.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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