Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:48:20 -0500 From: Etienne Robillard <erob@gthcfoundation.org> To: Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@gmail.com> Cc: nvass@gmx.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with ipfw and libalias on 8.2-PRERELEASE Message-ID: <4D63E8D4.2040306@gthcfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=gHv-A6D8Ru285i4TSHmXVu7Y=aMwHBgLtACEp@mail.gmail.com> References: <4D62D961.9000804@gthcfoundation.org> <AANLkTi=gHv-A6D8Ru285i4TSHmXVu7Y=aMwHBgLtACEp@mail.gmail.com>
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On 02/22/2011 04:28, Sergey Kandaurov wrote: > 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. > > Thanks that fixed it. I recall having tried to manually load libalias.ko but after a full buildworld it works fine.
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