From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 30 8:33:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E89C14CFD for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 08:33:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from leaverite (leaverite.sentex.ca [209.112.4.36]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA11072; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 11:33:14 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990330113800.0483d320@staff.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@staff.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 11:38:00 -0500 To: Michel Quadflieg From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.1-Stable Reboots after firewall load Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990330182324.00920c40@area51> References: <3.0.5.32.19990330112427.04717cc0@staff.sentex.ca> <4.1.19990330180952.0092cbe0@area51> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 06:26 PM 3/30/99 +0200, Michel Quadflieg wrote: >At 11:24 AM 3/30/99 -0500, you wrote: >>At 06:14 PM 3/30/99 +0200, Michel Quadflieg wrote: >>>But and now it comes: >>>When I reload the firewall from an host (connected via ssh2) which is >>configed >>>with a pipe in a given bandwith. FreeBSD crashes and reboots instantly. I >>>can't >>>find anything. I think there is some trouble with the TCP/I-stack but I >>>don't know >> >>By reload, what do you mean ? Do you mean you clear all the rules i.e. ipfw >>flush ? > >Yes sorry to let it be known. >I do a flush and have a script which reloads all rules... > >But I think it makes the flush but it crashes on the rules which are being >loaded Doing a flush on a network connection will have all sorts of bad effects. However, it should not crash the server. I think the man pages also warn about doing a remote flush. You might be safer deleting the specific rules you want to get rid of via ipfw delete ---Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel 01.519.651.3400 Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message