Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:28:37 +0300 From: Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@gmail.com> To: Etienne Robillard <erob@gthcfoundation.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with ipfw and libalias on 8.2-PRERELEASE Message-ID: <AANLkTi=gHv-A6D8Ru285i4TSHmXVu7Y=aMwHBgLtACEp@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D62D961.9000804@gthcfoundation.org> References: <4D62D961.9000804@gthcfoundation.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 22 February 2011 00:30, Etienne Robillard <erob@gthcfoundation.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm unable to load the ipfw module in 8.2-PRELEASE. i think > this may be due to ABI changes at the kernel level. , > > $ sudo kldload /boot/kernel/ipfw.ko > $ dmesg > ... > KLD ipfw.ko: depends on libalias - not available or version mismatch > linker_load_file: Unsupported file type > > $ uname -a > FreeBSD marina.localdomain 8.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE #1: Wed Feb > 16 03:38:23 EST 2011 > root@:/usr/local/freebsd8/src/sys/amd64/compile/GENERIC.ndebug amd64 > > could there be a more precise explanation? > In recent 8.x you first need to kldload libalias.ko. It was broken in 8 since MFC r200636 (and still broken in head), where ipfw.ko includes ipfw_nat, which depends on libalias. I think either ipfw should un-include ipfw_nat stuff, or pollute self more and take explicit dependency on libalias. -- wbr, pluknet
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?AANLkTi=gHv-A6D8Ru285i4TSHmXVu7Y=aMwHBgLtACEp>