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Date:      Thu, 24 May 2018 08:18:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
To:        "[?Big5?]" <lantw44@gmail.com>
Cc:        ae@freebsd.org, freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Missing sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_keep_states on FreeBSD 11.2
Message-ID:  <201805241518.w4OFIm64041005@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <22feed0d6b659746619604cb20e2e091b79ca480.camel@gmail.com>

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> Hello,
> 
> I upgraded my desktop system from FreeBSD 11.2-BETA1 last week, and I found the
> sysctl 'net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_keep_states' got removed. I upgraded it again to
> FreeBSD 11.2-BETA2 today, and I still could not find it. Currently I rely on
> both 'net.inet.ip.fw.default_to_accept=1' and 'net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_keep_states=1'
> to be able to reload firewall rules with 'service ipfw restart' without breaking
> existing TCP connections. As this sysctl variable is still mentioned in ipfw(8)
> man page, will it be brought back in future versions, or there will be an
> alternative solution for firewall rules reload?

As a follow up to this discusion, there has been a merge of code
into the stable/11 branch that should be in the 11.2-BETA3 build
that corrects this missing sysctl, could you please test this
build when it comes out and provide feed back to how it works
for you.

Thanks,
-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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