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Date:      Sat, 7 Jul 2001 17:29:21 +0800
From:      James Lim <evilfry@sg.freebsd.org>
To:        "Ling Ling" <llchan@eweb-asia.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: IPFW error message
Message-ID:  <01070717292100.46971@evilfry.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <000e01c106c1$2bed20a0$25904bca@ewebasia.com>
References:  <000e01c106c1$2bed20a0$25904bca@ewebasia.com>

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Hi Ling Ling,


		try checking whether ipfw is loaded correctly, kldstat -v | grep ipf
If it is not, try loading the module. The last time that happened was 
due to an improper make world, although it was compiled in kernel.

Hope this helps

On the last episode Saturday 07 July 2001 16:45, Ling Ling wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I come across this error message in my FreeBSD-4.2 server when I
> started firewall rules :
>
> ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument
>
> I had all IPFIREWALL kernel options built and when I ' kldload -v |
> grep ipfw' the ipfw is there .... any clues on this ??
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Ling Ling

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Regards,
James Lim
http://sg.freebsd.org | http://www.bsd-geeks.org
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