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Date:      Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:22:34 +0200
From:      Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com>
Subject:   Re: ipfw2 broken
Message-ID:  <4124E1DA.B5341C04@freebsd.org>
References:  <1092881027.999.3.camel@server.mcneil.com> <412497B5.6040203@freebsd.org> <4124D1D4.5080307@samsco.org> <200408191251.32319.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 19 August 2004 12:14 pm, Scott Long wrote:
> > Andre Oppermann wrote:
> > > Sean McNeil wrote:
> > >> How do I get the ipfw2 module to compile with divert?  It doesn't
> > >> recognize the following in my config file when building the module:
> > >>
> > >> options         IPFIREWALL_FORWARD
> > >> options         IPDIVERT
> > >>
> > >> Also, the /etc/rc.d/ipfw script is looking for an invalid sysctl var:
> > >>
> > >> net.inet.ip.fw.enable
> > >>
> > >> and it will fail if I have the IPFIREWALL option which compiles the code
> > >> into the kernel because it will try to load and return 1 on a failure.
> > >
> > > I'm looking into it and will have a fix later today.
> >
> > This, and all of the rc.d, module loading, and kernel option problems
> > are now a blocking issue for BETA1.  We had planned to start the BETA1
> > no later than 2200 UTC today.  What is your schedule for getting all of
> > this fixed?
> 
> It looks like fixing the rc.d script is simply a matter of checking for the fw
> node rather than fw.enable.  The pfil(9) requirement is just a matter of
> documenting the new requirement.  The IPDIVERT thing is probably larger
> though. :(  We may need to just tell people to compile ipfw into the kernel
> for now if they want divert sockets, much as they do if they want 'default to
> accept'.

IPDIVERT wasn't compiled into the module before.  It's surrounded by
#if !defined(KLD_MODULE).  However if the kernel was compiled with option
IPDIVERT but w/o IPFIREWALL is was working anyway.

-- 
Andre



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