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Date:      Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:27:04 -0800
From:      Gavin Spomer <spomerg@cwu.EDU>
To:        freebsd-pf@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How does /dev/pf get created?
Message-ID:  <479DF4480200009000013240@hermes.cwu.edu>

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Well, after a recommendation from our university network engineer, Chris, =
who is a FreeBSD expert, I decided to look into the whole devfs thing. =
Although it was new to me, a couple of quick glances at man pages and =
experiments produced a /dev/pf for me. Now I have a firewall! :D Seems =
very strange to me that I had to do this to make it work, however. Can =
anyone tell me what the permissions/ownerships for thier /dev/pf is? I =
want to make sure that mine is kosher, even though my pf is already =
working.

Thanks to all who helped me on this problem, not to mention those who's =
mailboxes filled up with this thread! ;)

Now I'm having fun dinking around with the pf.conf. One thing I really dig =
so far about pf versus the firewall I use on my SuSE machines (iptables), =
is that I don't have to reboot for changes to take effect. Way happy about =
that! :)

- Gavin

>>> Gavin Spomer <spomerg@cwu.EDU> 01/25/08 3:30 PM >>>
>>> Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> 01/25/08 2:39 PM >>>
> link_elf: symbol altq_remove undefined
> link_elf: symbol altq_remove undefined
> link_elf: symbol altq_remove undefined
> link_elf: symbol altq_remove undefined
> link_elf: symbol altq_remove undefined
> link_elf: symbol altq_remove undefined
And, very likely, here is the cause of your pf problem.  :-)  Please go
back to what I said about your kernel configuration -- you're missing a
lot of "option" arguments for ALTQ support.  Add all of the ones I gave
you, follow the instructions for buildkernel/installkernel, and it
should all begin working.

   The ALTQ options are still in my kernel; I never removed them since you =
recommended I put them in and I rebuilt my
   kernel. I went ahead and did the buildkernel/installkernel again, =
checking to see if the ALTQ stuff was in there before. This
   time I tried adding the "device pf" stuff back in. Still the same =
story. Maybe I'm rebuilding my kernel wrong? Doesn't seem
   likely. How hard is it to screw up the following?

   1. vi /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MACHINEHOSTNAME (edit accordingly)
   2. cd /usr/src
   3. make buildkernel KERNCONF=3DMACHINEHOSTNAME
   4. make installkernel KERNCONF=3DMACHINEHOSTNAME
   5. shutdown -r now

   Well, the weekend is upon us. We can continue this on Monday, if you're =
still willing. Thanks for the extra effort.

   - Gavin
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