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Date:      Tue, 20 Oct 1998 22:05:48 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        Loren Daniel Koss <loren@boingo.pciway.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IPFW woes..
Message-ID:  <19981020220548.B312@scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.981020131338.342A-100000@boingo.pciway.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.981020131338.342A-100000@boingo.pciway.com>

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Loren Daniel Koss wrote:

> I rebuilt the kernal with IPFIREWALL options and I still get errors when
> doing an ipfw list:
> 
> ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_GET): Invalid argument

Have you rebuilt ipfw as well? I got similar errors when I rebuilt one,
not the other.

> In the man pages, I see the command for /lkm/modload ... but I don't
> understand why I have to do this.  Should I add this to my rc.local file?
> Is that how people do it?

No. If you have enabled a firewall in rc.conf the LKM will be loaded if
needed. If you have IPFIREWALL in your kernel, I don't think the LKM is
needed.

-- 
Ben Smithurst                                          ben@scientia.demon.co.uk

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