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From: James Lim <evilfry@sg.freebsd.org>
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To: "Ling Ling" <llchan@eweb-asia.com>,
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Subject: Re: IPFW error message
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 17:29:21 +0800
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Hi Ling Ling,


=09=09try checking whether ipfw is loaded correctly, kldstat -v | grep ip=
f
If it is not, try loading the module. The last time that happened was=20
due to an improper make world, although it was compiled in kernel.

Hope this helps

On the last episode Saturday 07 July 2001 16:45, Ling Ling wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I come across this error message in my FreeBSD-4.2 server when I
> started firewall rules :
>
> ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument
>
> I had all IPFIREWALL kernel options built and when I ' kldload -v |
> grep ipfw' the ipfw is there .... any clues on this ??
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Ling Ling

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Regards,
James Lim
http://sg.freebsd.org | http://www.bsd-geeks.org
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