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Date:      Tue, 27 Jun 1995 16:39:11 +0100 (BST)
From:      Paul Richards <paul@lambda.demon.co.uk>
To:        gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com (Gary Palmer)
Cc:        imb@scgt.oz.au, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ipfw - addf reject = panic
Message-ID:  <199506271539.QAA01048@freebsd.netcraft.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <684.804265983@westhill.cdrom.com> from "Gary Palmer" at Jun 27, 95 08:13:03 am

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In reply to Gary Palmer who said
> 
> In message <199506271507.BAA08082@asstdc.scgt.oz.au>, michael butler writes:
> >This evening I was looking to move back to kernel mode ppp and, in doing so,
> >exploring the firewall facility ipfw once more. Sad news ..
> 
> >gw3:~ #	ipfw addf reject all from any to harvey
> 
> >asstdc:~ # traceroute harvey
> 
> > .. results in a kernel panic on gw3 running current as of yesterday :-(
> 
> Really? Have you tried just `ipfw addf ldeny ...' instead to see if
> it's a problem with the ICMP sending code? If not, I'm in trouble... I
> just turned on the firewall locally - on a -current box, although I'm
> not using `reject'...

The ipfw code works for me fine but using user-space PPP. I suspect
that it is the kernel PPP code that is falling over rather than
anything else since it was flakey in 2.0 and has since been largely
ignored since everyones switched.

-- 
  Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. 
  Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.freebsd.org/~paul
  Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1222 457651 (home)



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