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Date:      Mon, 8 May 2006 14:32:10 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        Iantcho Vassilev <ianchov@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pf not loading the rules at boot
Message-ID:  <20060508143014.Q40914@woozle.rinet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <18e02bd30605080206x3c3c908blbcb1019f146d22da@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20060508084807.GA16470@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <18e02bd30605080206x3c3c908blbcb1019f146d22da@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, 8 May 2006, Iantcho Vassilev wrote:

IV> > By the way, if you have a kernel *without* IPV6 support, the firewall
IV> > module
IV> > will *not* load. You will have to recompile the firewall module without
IV> > IPV6 support first. This is the most common cause of the problem you are
IV> > seeing.
IV> 
IV> Thank you,Michel..,but it will not load on boot or?

Neither, as it tries to refer to inet6 symbols; you have to build ipfw module 
with NO_INET6=yes too

IV> If this is true maybe this is the problem - i have disabled IPV6 in the
IV> kernel...

Check `dmesg -a' output

BTW, ipfw says 

ipfw2 (+ipv6)

even when it is build without inet6, which is a bit misleading.

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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