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Date:      Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:17:33 +0200
From:      Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
To:        freebsd-pf@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pf starts too early
Message-ID:  <200910160017.34339.max@love2party.net>
In-Reply-To: <4AD79180.204@infosec.pl>
References:  <4AD79180.204@infosec.pl>

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On Thursday 15 October 2009 23:17:52 Michal wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using pf on FreeBSD 8.0-RC1. My wlan0-ath0 card is set up via
> wpa_supplicant.conf and rc.conf (ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"). pf also
> starts via rc.conf
> 
> Problem is that pf cannot start during the system boot because it tries
> to load rules before my network card gets authenticated and connected.
> Since wlan0 doesn't have IP address at the time I get a lot of:
> 
> no IP address found for wlan0
> /etc/pf.conf:151: could not parse host specification
> no IP address found for wlan0
> pfctl: Syntax error in config file: pf rules not loaded
> pf enabled

simply s/wlan0/(wlan0)/ where is appears in a host/address context.  This is 
an FAQ.
 
> It fills up my dmesg output. Loading rules by hand works perfectly fine.
> 
> Any ideas what is wrong or which part of the system should I tweak?
> 
> Michal
> 

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