From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 20 16:42:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA18139 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 16:42:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA18100 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 16:42:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.05 #3) id 0zViyS-0003B3-00; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 22:05:48 +0100 Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 22:05:48 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Loren Daniel Koss Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPFW woes.. Message-ID: <19981020220548.B312@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.12i (FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message