Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:16:53 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to use network early in boot with recent -current Message-ID: <20070221161653.89AD045042@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:16:35 CST." <45DC4633.6060204@freebsd.org>
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--==_Exmh_1172074613_95604P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:16:35 -0600 > From: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> > > On 02/20/07 17:06, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > My laptop running current of Feb. 9 seems to be unable to configure and > > use a network interface early in the startup process. > > > > I use Tobias Roth's profile script to determine where my laptop is > > located and to configure it appropriately. This is done by setting an > > address on an interface and trying to ping a known neighbor (usually a > > router). > > > > This worked on systems built through Jan. 25, but now attempting to do > > this right after root is mounted RW, I get "sendto: permission denied". > > I get this at any point in the startup prior to netif. This is in > > single user mode, so this is quite baffling to me, although I realize > > that this method is unorthodox (and certainly not supported), but it > > has always worked and I don't see what broke it. > > > > Any ideas of what might be going on? > > > Firewall rules? I'm afraid ipfw starts up much later than root. No firewall should be running at that point. The only startups completed at the point I do this are dumpon, initrandom, geli, swap1, early.sh, fsck, and root. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1172074613_95604P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFF3HB1kn3rs5h7N1ERAqarAJ958NDgm+R3A/bjdVV6nisO4CihHgCgmtRX d2YvMpHWPiy93lxK5xB5BcE= =IJ4U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1172074613_95604P--
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