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Date:      Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:34:00 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        cpghost@cordula.ws
Subject:   Re: Can't kldload pf
Message-ID:  <200503110934.08660.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20050310220316.GA1529@bsdbox.farid-hajji.net>
References:  <20050310175208.GA947@bsdbox.farid-hajji.net> <200503101913.59397.max@love2party.net> <20050310220316.GA1529@bsdbox.farid-hajji.net>

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On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:33, cpghost@cordula.ws wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 07:13:51PM +0100, Max Laier wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 March 2005 18:52, cpghost@cordula.ws wrote:
> > > on RELENG_5, cvsupped March 9th, I can't kldload pf:
> > >
> > > fw# kldload pf
> > > kldload: can't load pf: No such file or directory
> >
> > You don't have "options INET6" in your kernel config, but the pf module
> > assumes that it is there.  You can either built pf into the kernel (since
> > you are building a custom kernel anyway), rebuild the module without that
> > assumption (see the module's Makefile) or you can reenable "options
> > INET6" in the kernel.
>
> Yes, INET6 is needed indeed. That was the catch! Adding "options INET6"
> solved the problem.
>
> > The ENOENT error returned from kldload is a bit misleading, though.
>
> Ugh... yes ;). Perhaps that should be documented in pf(4)?

It's not pf per se..
If you ran dmesg after your kldload attempts you'd see the kernel linker 
complaining about being unable to resolve some IPv6 related symbols.

Other possibility is to do..
cd /usr/src/sys/modules/pf
make NO_INET6= install

and load it again.

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