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Date:      Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:31:13 +0200
From:      peter@bgnett.no (Peter N. M. Hansteen)
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem with PF
Message-ID:  <86ekdwhzta.fsf@amidala.datadok.no>
In-Reply-To: <810a540e05033019208b6f7b2@mail.gmail.com> (Pat Maddox's message of "Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:20:47 -0700")
References:  <810a540e05033019208b6f7b2@mail.gmail.com>

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Pat Maddox <pergesu@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm trying to set up PF on a server, and when I run pfctl -nf
> /etc/pf.conf, I get the following error:
> pfctl: ifa_load: pfi_get_ifaces: Bad file descriptor

More info is required. 

Which FreeBSD and PF versions (not all permutations of pf and FreeBSD
will work, see the handbook), pf relevant rc.conf lines, your pf.conf,
ifconfig output

> Google doesn't come up with anything, I've got no clue what that is.  Any help?

Check your ruleset for obvious errors, such as trying to address a
non-existent interface. Then again, this is guesswork based on very
little information.

-- 
Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
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