From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 27 23:40:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA12571 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 23:40:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt051n19.san.rr.com (root@dt051n19.san.rr.com [204.210.32.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA12525 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 23:39:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Received: from san.rr.com (dougdougdougdoug@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt051n19.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA12202; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 23:40:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Message-ID: <34CEE0D9.6BF47DFC@san.rr.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 23:40:09 -0800 From: Studded Organization: DALnet IRC Network X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Steve W. Heistand" CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipfw Q References: <199801192143.NAA03825@milo.nas.nasa.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Steve W. Heistand wrote: > > Has anyone seend this/ know a fix for it?: > %ipfw list (or any other ipfw command) > ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_GET): Invalid argument I've seen this error with a working ipfw configuration when I didn't su first. Looking at the prompt in your example, it seems that might be the problem. Otherwise, the other response is correct, it's not built into your kernel. Read the man page for ipfw *carefully*. :) Good luck, Doug -- *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,120 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) *** Part of the DALnet IRC network ***