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From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
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Subject: -stable hangs at boot (fwd)
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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 23:28:56 +1100 (EST)
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I wrote: 

> Having backed out the troublesome /usr/lib/libc/db/hash/hash.c change, I
> still have the problem of a recently built -stable kernel stopping during
> start-up immediately after "ifconfig ed0 .." but before "ifconfig lo0 .."
 
> If I wait long enough, it seems that it will eventually continue but cannot
> transmit packets at all on the ed0 interface.

This is as a direct consequence of compiling IPFW into the kernel .. it
can't receive packets from its own ethernet interface !

If you ^C your way to a shell prompt, there's a single rule that's in the
firewall list saying "deny all from any to any". Courtesy of the same recent
brain-damage in ipfw(8), you can't delete this rule either ("setsockopt
failed").

I suspect the very same problem in -current.

The only workaround I can think of is to add "ipfw addf accept .."
statements _prior_ to the running of ifconfig in netstart .. theory as yet
untested ..

	michael