From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 27 08:52:24 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA19118 for current-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 08:52:24 -0700 Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA19107 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 08:52:20 -0700 Received: from freebsd.netcraft.co.uk (lambda.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.124]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id IAA21707 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 08:52:09 -0700 Received: (from paul@localhost) by freebsd.netcraft.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA01048; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 16:39:12 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199506271539.QAA01048@freebsd.netcraft.co.uk> Subject: Re: ipfw - addf reject = panic To: gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com (Gary Palmer) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 16:39:11 +0100 (BST) Cc: imb@scgt.oz.au, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <684.804265983@westhill.cdrom.com> from "Gary Palmer" at Jun 27, 95 08:13:03 am Reply-to: paul@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1092 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Gary Palmer who said > > In message <199506271507.BAA08082@asstdc.scgt.oz.au>, michael butler writes: > >This evening I was looking to move back to kernel mode ppp and, in doing so, > >exploring the firewall facility ipfw once more. Sad news .. > > >gw3:~ # ipfw addf reject all from any to harvey > > >asstdc:~ # traceroute harvey > > > .. results in a kernel panic on gw3 running current as of yesterday :-( > > Really? Have you tried just `ipfw addf ldeny ...' instead to see if > it's a problem with the ICMP sending code? If not, I'm in trouble... I > just turned on the firewall locally - on a -current box, although I'm > not using `reject'... The ipfw code works for me fine but using user-space PPP. I suspect that it is the kernel PPP code that is falling over rather than anything else since it was flakey in 2.0 and has since been largely ignored since everyones switched. -- Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.freebsd.org/~paul Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1222 457651 (home)