From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 2 07:18:13 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33C601065693 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 07:18:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from cp-out8.libero.it (cp-out8.libero.it [212.52.84.108]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAFB38FC1B for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 07:18:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from soth.ventu (151.51.19.108) by cp-out8.libero.it (8.5.107) id 4AEB0E7E00540EA7 for freebsd-net@freebsd.org; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 08:18:11 +0100 Received: from alamar.ventu (alamar.ventu [10.1.2.18]) by soth.ventu (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id nA27IAVR084319 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 08:18:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Message-ID: <4AEE87B2.7010009@netfence.it> Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:18:10 +0100 From: Andrea Venturoli User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090828) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: ipfw uid and mpsafenet X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:18:13 -0000 Hello. I've got a 6.3 box in which I needed to use debug.mpsafenet=0 in order to avoid deadlocks with ipfw uid rules. I'm thinking of upgrading this to 7.2 and I see the above variable has gone away. Does this mean it is now safe to use such ipfw rules? The last things I could find wrt this matter is this thread: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/arch/2007-07/msg00108.html, but it's from 2007... Any other caveat? bye & Thanks av.